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Birthday June 6, 1915

• The temperature on June 6, 1915 was between 12.7 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (43%). 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
  • March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
  • May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
  • June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
  • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
  • October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Carlo L. Golino, Italian-American author, critic, and academic († 1991)
• 1915 » Vincent Persichetti, American pianist and composer († 1987)
• 1916 » Hamani Diori, Nigerien academic and politician, 1st President of Niger († 1989)
• 1917 » Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founded the Tracinda Corporation († 2015)
• 1918 » Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1919 » Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, English army officer and politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO († 2018)