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Birthday September 8, 1916

• The temperature on September 8, 1916 was between 10.4 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 10 » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
  • January 24 » In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
  • February 24 » The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
  • June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
  • July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
  • November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre († 2001)
• 1914 » Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople († 1991)
• 1915 » N. V. M. Gonzalez, Filipino novelist, poet, and writer († 1999)
• 1917 » Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator († 2009)
• 1918 » Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1919 » Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and author († 1992)