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Birthday October 27, 1916

• The temperature on October 27, 1916 was between 2.1 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • 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.
  • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
  • 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.
  • September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
  • November 30 » Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
  • December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1914 » Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright († 1953)
• 1915 » Harry Saltzman, Canadian-French production manager and producer († 1994)
• 1917 » Augustine Harris, English bishop († 2007)
• 1917 » Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician († 1993)
• 1918 » Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian engineer and politician († 2003)