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Birthday August 13, 1916

• The temperature on August 13, 1916 was between 15.6 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
  • April 29 » Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
  • June 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
  • August 25 » The United States National Park Service is created.
  • November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
  • 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).
  • December 30 » The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Fred Davis, English snooker player († 1998)
• 1913 » Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of Cyprus († 1977)
• 1914 » Grace Bates, American mathematician and academic († 1996)
• 1917 » Sid Gordon, American baseball player († 1975)
• 1918 » Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1918 » Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago († 2006)