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Birthday February 19, 1916

• The temperature on February 19, 1916 was between 0.3 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
  • March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
  • July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
  • August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
  • October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
  • December 18 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza († 2007)
• 1914 » Thelma Kench, New Zealand Olympic sprinter († 1985)
• 1915 » John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States († 2014)
• 1916 » Eddie Arcaro, American jockey and sportscaster († 1997)
• 1917 » Carson McCullers, American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and essayist († 1967)
• 1918 » Fay McKenzie, American actress († 2019)