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Birthday February 6, 1915

• The temperature on February 6, 1915 was between -0.7 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
  • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
  • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
  • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
  • August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Mary Leakey, English-Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist († 1996)
• 1914 » Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer († 2005)
• 1915 » Kavi Pradeep, Indian poet and songwriter († 1998)
• 1916 » John Crank, English mathematician and physicist († 2006)
• 1917 » Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and jurist († 2008)
• 1917 » Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite († 2016)