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Birthday October 26, 1917

• The temperature on October 26, 1917 was between 4.8 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
  • May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
  • July 12 » The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
  • July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
  • July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
  • September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Joe Fry, English race car driver († 1950)
• 1915 » Ray Crawford, American race car driver, fighter ace, test pilot, and businessman († 1996)
• 1916 » Boyd Wagner, American colonel and pilot († 1942)
• 1916 » François Mitterrand, French lawyer and politician, 21st President of France († 1996)
• 1919 » Frank Bourgholtzer, American journalist († 2010)
• 1919 » Princess Ashraf of Iran († 2016)