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Birthday September 25, 1916

• The temperature on September 25, 1916 was between 4.0 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • August 16 » The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
  • September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
  • September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
  • November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
  • November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1916 » Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist († 1968)
• 1916 » Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright († 2010)
• 1917 » Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2007)
• 1920 » Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer († 2002)
• 1920 » Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-Russian actor, director, and screenwriter († 1994)