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Birthday September 3, 1914

• The temperature on September 3, 1914 was between 8.6 °C and 26.4 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
  • August 2 » The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
  • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
  • September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • December 23 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Bernard Mammes, American cyclist and sergeant († 2000)
• 1913 » Alan Ladd, American actor and producer († 1964)
• 1914 » Dixy Lee Ray, American biologist and politician, 17th Governor of Washington († 1994)
• 1915 » Knut Nystedt, Norwegian organist and composer († 2014)
• 1915 » Memphis Slim, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1988)
• 1916 » Eddie Stanky, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1999)