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Birthday November 24, 1916

• The temperature on November 24, 1916 was between 4.2 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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.
  • June 3 » The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
  • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
  • July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
  • October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
  • November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
  • December 30 » The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress († 2005)
• 1913 » Howard Duff, American actor, director, and producer († 1990)
• 1914 » Bessie Blount Griffin, American physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist († 2009)
• 1914 » Lynn Chadwick, English sculptor († 2003)
• 1916 » Forrest J Ackerman, American soldier and author († 2008)
• 1917 » Shabtai Rosenne, English-Israeli academic, jurist, and diplomat († 2010)