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Birthday August 30, 1915

• The temperature on August 30, 1915 was between 7.9 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
  • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
  • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  • May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1915 » Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland († 2013)
• 1915 » Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor, and educator († 2003)
• 1916 » Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter († 1968)
• 1917 » Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 2015)
• 1917 » Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia († 1992)