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

Birthday July 12, 1914

• The temperature on July 12, 1914 was between 14.8 °C and 27.9 °C and averaged 22.3 °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.
  • May 29 » The Ocean liner RMSEmpress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
  • August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
  • August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
  • August 27 » World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
  • September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
  • 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.

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)