Database Van Broekhoven » Doodgeboren zoon van Zutphen (1917)

Birthday July 31, 1917

• The temperature on July 31, 1917 was between 10.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • May 21 » The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
  • August 30 » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
  • September 14 » The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
  • October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
  • November 5 » October Revolution: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
  • November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Bill Todman, American screenwriter and producer († 1979)
• 1916 » Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 2006)
• 1916 » Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist († 1986)
• 1918 » Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman and financier († 1998)
• 1918 » Hank Jones, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 2010)
• 1918 » Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)