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  1. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Birthday May 17, 1917

  • The temperature on May 17, 1917 was between 10.2 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
    • January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
    • April 2 » World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
    • May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
    • July 6 » World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
    • September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
    • November 5 » October Revolution: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.

Day of death May 9, 1918

  • The temperature on May 9, 1918 was between 8.3 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
    • February 21 » The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
    • March 21 » World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
    • September 10 » Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
    • November 10 » The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
    • December 1 » Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
    • December 4 » U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1914 » Robert N. Thompson, American-Canadian chiropractor and politician († 1997)
  • 1918 » Birgit Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano († 2005)
  • 1918 » Joan Benham, English actress († 1981)
  • 1919 » Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and screenwriter († 2007)
  • 1919 » Gustav Naan, Russian-Estonian physicist and philosopher († 1994)
  • 1919 » Merle Miller, American author and screenwriter († 1986)

Source: Wikipedia


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