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Birthday January 23, 1917

• The temperature on January 23, 1917 was between -11.2 °C and -3.4 °C and averaged -7 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
  • May 27 » Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
  • July 12 » The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
  • July 28 » The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
  • November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
  • December 2 » World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk, and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk begin.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower and handball player († 2003)
• 1915 » W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-Barbadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1916 » Airey Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland († 1979)
• 1916 » David Douglas Duncan, American photographer and journalist († 2018)
• 1918 » Florence Rush, American social worker and theorist († 2008)
• 1918 » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)