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Birthday September 5, 1916

• The temperature on September 5, 1916 was between 9.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 10 » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
  • April 8 » In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.
  • April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
  • April 25 » Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
  • October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
  • December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Gail Kubik, American violinist, composer, and educator († 1984)
• 1914 » Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist († 2013)
• 1916 » Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1916 » Frank Yerby, American novelist († 1991)
• 1917 » Pedro E. Guerrero, American photographer († 2012)
• 1917 » Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racer and trainer († 2008)