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Birthday November 14, 1915

• The temperature on November 14, 1915 was between 0.2 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 14.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
  • January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
  • February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
  • May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
  • October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Ken Carson, American Western singer († 1994)
• 1915 » Mabel Fairbanks, American figure skater and coach († 2001)
• 1915 » Martha Tilton, American singer and actress († 2006)
• 1916 » Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician and academic († 1994)
• 1916 » Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer († 2011)
• 1917 » Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea († 1979)