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Birthday April 14, 1917

• The temperature on April 14, 1917 was between 1.5 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 8 » International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
  • April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
  • July 20 » World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
  • July 27 » World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
  • December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
  • December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Don Willesee, Australian telegraphist and politician, 29th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs († 2003)
• 1917 » Marvin Miller, American baseball executive († 2012)
• 1917 » Valerie Hobson, English actress († 1998)
• 1918 » Mary Healy, American actress and singer († 2015)
• 1919 » K. Saraswathi Amma, Indian author and playwright († 1975)
• 1919 » Shamshad Begum, Pakistani-Indian singer († 2013)