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Birthday November 20, 1916

• The temperature on November 20, 1916 was between 3.2 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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.
  • February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
  • June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
  • 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.
  • September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
  • November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
  • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1916 » Donald T. Campbell, American social scientist († 1996)
• 1916 » Evelyn Keyes, American actress († 2008)
• 1916 » Michael J. Ingelido, American general († 2015)