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Birthday November 14, 1914

• The temperature on November 14, 1914 was between 1.7 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (27%). 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
  • August 3 » World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
  • August 23 » World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
  • August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
  • October 18 » The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
  • December 15 » World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Barbara Hutton, American philanthropist († 1979)
• 1912 » Tung-Yen Lin, Chinese-American engineer, designed the Guandu Bridge († 2003)
• 1914 » Ken Carson, American Western singer († 1994)
• 1915 » Mabel Fairbanks, American figure skater and coach († 2001)
• 1915 » Martha Tilton, American singer and actress († 2006)
• 1916 » Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician and academic († 1994)