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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.
  • April 10 » The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
  • June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
  • 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.
  • August 16 » The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
  • October 7 » Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
  • November 1 » In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.

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)