Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » OG van Rijn (1915-1915)

Birthday June 27, 1915

• The temperature on June 27, 1915 was between 10.5 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
  • February 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
  • May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
  • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
  • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
  • September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Helena Benitez, Filipina academic and administrator († 2016)
• 1914 » Margaret Ekpo, Nigerian women's rights activist, social mobilizer and politician († 2006)
• 1914 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist, co-founded the Inland Waterways Association († 1981)
• 1915 » Aideu Handique, Indian actress († 2002)
• 1915 » Grace Lee Boggs, American philosopher, author, and activist († 2015)
• 1915 » John Alexander Moore, American zoologist and academic († 2002)