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Birthday August 30, 1914

• The temperature on August 30, 1914 was between 9.8 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
  • July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
  • August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
  • September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • October 18 » The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
  • November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1912 » Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain († 2011)
• 1913 » Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1915 » Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland († 2013)
• 1915 » Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor, and educator († 2003)
• 1916 » Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter († 1968)