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Birthday September 30, 1916

• The temperature on September 30, 1916 was between 4.4 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 10 » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
  • January 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • November 5 » The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
  • November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer († 1975)
• 1915 » Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia († 2003)
• 1917 » Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor († 1987)
• 1917 » Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director († 2014)
• 1918 » Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain († 1995)
• 1918 » René Rémond, French historian and economist († 2007)