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Birthday March 6, 1917

• The temperature on March 6, 1917 was between -3.5 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -1.0 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
  • March 1 » The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
  • March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
  • June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
  • 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.
  • December 6 » World War I: USSJacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SMU-53.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic († 2003)
• 1917 » Frankie Howerd, English comedian († 1992)
• 1917 » Will Eisner, American illustrator and publisher († 2005)
• 1918 » Howard McGhee, American trumpeter († 1987)
• 1920 » Lewis Gilbert, English director, producer, and screenwriter († 2018)
• 1921 » Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author († 2014)