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Birthday March 8, 1916

• The temperature on March 8, 1916 was between -1.6 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
  • April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
  • May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
  • June 4 » World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
  • June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
  • November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer († 2000)
• 1912 » Meldrim Thomson, Jr., American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire († 2001)
• 1912 » Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas († 2003)
• 1914 » Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian-Russian physicist and astronomer († 1987)
• 1918 » Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress († 2008)
• 1920 » Douglass Wallop, American author and playwright († 1985)