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Birthday November 7, 1914

• The temperature on November 7, 1914 was between 4.9 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
  • August 15 » World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
  • September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
  • September 13 » World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
  • November 2 » World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
  • December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1960)
• 1913 » Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1913 » Mikhail Solomentsev, Soviet politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union († 2008)
• 1914 » Archie Campbell, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1914 » R. A. Lafferty, American soldier, engineer, and author († 2002)
• 1915 » Philip Morrison, American astrophysicist and academic († 2005)