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Birthday September 3, 1915

• The temperature on September 3, 1915 was between 7.8 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  • January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
  • March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  • November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)
• 1918 » Helen Wagner, American actress († 2010)