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Birthday February 2, 1916

• The temperature on February 2, 1916 was between -2.4 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). 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.
  • January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
  • February 3 » The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of 7 lives.
  • April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
  • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
  • November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
  • 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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• 1915 » Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and author († 2014)
• 1915 » Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer († 2005)
• 1916 » Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author († 1985)
• 1917 » Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam († 2018)
• 1917 » Mary Ellis, British World War II ferry pilot († 2018)