Sickler Family Tree » Edith Irene Sickler (1917-1917)

Birthday August 23, 1917

• The temperature on August 23, 1917 was between 15.5 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • April 2 » World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
  • October 31 » World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
  • November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
  • November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
  • December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
  • December 15 » World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1912 » Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1996)
• 1913 » Bob Crosby, American swing singer and bandleader († 1993)
• 1917 » Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1985)
• 1919 » Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist († 1984)
• 1921 » Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)
• 1921 » Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire († 1996)