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Birthday February 4, 1917

• The temperature on February 4, 1917 was between -15.3 °C and -5.7 °C and averaged -9.7 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
  • April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
  • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
  • December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
  • December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
  • December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author and publisher († 1980)
• 1915 » Norman Wisdom, English singer-songwriter and actor († 2010)
• 1915 » William Talman, American actor and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1917 » Yahya Khan, Pakistan general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan († 1980)
• 1918 » Ida Lupino, English-American actress and director († 1995)
• 1918 » Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher and author († 1991)