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Birthday June 21, 1916

• The temperature on June 21, 1916 was between 5.7 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • March 9 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
  • April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • August 25 » The United States National Park Service is created.
  • September 8 » In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
  • September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » William Vickrey, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1915 » Wilhelm Gliese, German soldier and astronomer († 1993)
• 1916 » Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player († 1977)
• 1916 » Herbert Friedman, American physicist and astronomer († 2000)
• 1916 » Joseph Cyril Bamford, English businessman, founded J. C. Bamford († 2001)
• 1916 » Tchan Fou-li, Chinese photographer († 2018)