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Birthday April 6, 1916

• The temperature on April 6, 1916 was between 3.4 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
  • February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
  • 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 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
  • July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
  • October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
  • November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer and academic († 1993)
• 1915 » Tadeusz Kantor, Polish director, painter, and set designer († 1990)
• 1916 » Phil Leeds, American actor († 1998)
• 1916 » Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist and author († 1987)
• 1917 » Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author († 2011)
• 1918 » Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian general and politician, 56th President of Bolivia († 1982)