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Birthday September 15, 1914

• The temperature on September 15, 1914 was between 9.6 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
  • July 23 » Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
  • August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
  • August 15 » A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
  • August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
  • August 20 » World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.

Source: Wikipedia

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