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Birthday August 6, 1917

• The temperature on August 6, 1917 was between 13.1 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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.
  • May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
  • August 30 » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
  • October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
  • November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
  • November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
  • December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta († 2012)
• 1916 » Richard Hofstadter, American historian and academic († 1970)
• 1917 » Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator († 2000)
• 1917 » Robert Mitchum, American actor († 1997)
• 1918 » Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer and manager († 2001)
• 1919 » Pauline Betz, American tennis player († 2011)