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Birthday June 14, 1917

• The temperature on June 14, 1917 was between 12.1 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • March 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
  • July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
  • August 30 » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
  • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
  • October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
  • December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Dorothy McGuire, American actress († 2001)
• 1917 » Atle Selberg, Norwegian-American mathematician and academic († 2007)
• 1917 » Gilbert Prouteau, French poet and director († 2012)
• 1917 » Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist, author, and screenwriter
• 1918 » Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles († 2008)
• 1919 » Gene Barry, American actor († 2009)