Database Van Broekhoven » Martinus Johannes van der Horst (1916-)

Birthday October 17, 1916

• The temperature on October 17, 1916 was between 2.1 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
  • August 5 » World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
  • August 25 » The United States National Park Service is created.
  • September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
  • November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1917 » Adele Stimmel Chase, American painter and sculptor († 2000)
• 1917 » Marsha Hunt, American actress and singer
• 1917 » Martin Donnelly, New Zealand cricketer († 1999)
• 1917 » Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright († 1991)