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Birthday August 8, 1916

• The temperature on August 8, 1916 was between 7.8 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
  • April 20 » The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.
  • April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
  • September 7 » US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
  • December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
  • 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).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Rosetta LeNoire, American actress († 2002)
• 1915 » James Elliott, American runner and coach († 1981)
• 1919 » Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor and producer († 2010)
• 1919 » John David Wilson, English animator and producer († 2013)
• 1920 » Jimmy Witherspoon, American jump blues singer († 1997)
• 1920 » Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter and producer († 2006)