The Brown Tree » Mary White "Molly" McNeice (1914-)

Birthday July 12, 1914

• The temperature on July 12, 1914 was between 14.2 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 21.2 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • 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.
  • March 8 » First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
  • August 21 » World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
  • August 27 » World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
  • September 11 » World War I: Australia invades German New Guinea, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
  • September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Evald Mikson, Estonian footballer († 1993)
• 1913 » Willis Lamb, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
• 1914 » Mohammad Moin, Iranian linguist and lexicographer († 1971)
• 1915 » Emanuel Papper, American anesthesiologist, professor, and author († 2002)
• 1915 » Princess Catherine Ivanovna of Russia, († 2007)
• 1916 » Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and sniper († 1974)