The Brown Tree » Arthur William HEFFERNAN (1915-1992)

Birthday March 29, 1915

• The temperature on March 29, 1915 was between -5.3 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
  • January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
  • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
  • May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
  • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  • July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot († 1979)
• 1914 » Chapman Pincher, Indian-English historian, journalist, and author († 2014)
• 1914 » Phil Foster, American actor († 1985)
• 1916 » Eugene McCarthy, American poet and politician († 2005)
• 1916 » Peter Geach, English philosopher and academic († 2013)
• 1917 » Tommy Holmes, American baseball player († 2008)