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Birthday June 21, 1914

• The temperature on June 21, 1914 was between 12.4 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • February 13 » Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
  • July 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
  • September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
  • October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
  • November 1 » World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMSGood Hope and HMSMonmouth.
  • December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Kazimierz Leski, Polish pilot and engineer († 2000)
• 1912 » Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic († 1989)
• 1913 » Luis Taruc, Filipino political activist († 2005)
• 1913 » Madihe Pannaseeha Thero, Sri Lankan monk and scholar († 2003)
• 1914 » William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1915 » Wilhelm Gliese, German soldier and astronomer († 1993)