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Birthday May 19, 1914

• The temperature on May 19, 1914 was between 8.5 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • April 21 » Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
  • May 17 » The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
  • August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
  • August 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
  • October 29 » Ottoman entry into World War I.
  • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1913 » Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th President of India († 1996)
• 1914 » Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player († 2005)
• 1914 » John Vachon, American photographer and journalist († 1975)
• 1914 » Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2002)
• 1915 » Renée Asherson, English actress († 2014)