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Birthday September 21, 1916

• The temperature on September 21, 1916 was between 8.7 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
  • August 29 » The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
  • September 15 » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
  • 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.
  • December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
  • December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Françoise Giroud, Swiss-French journalist and politician, French Minister of Culture († 2003)
• 1917 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and academic († 1968)
• 1918 » John Gofman, American physicist, chemist, and biologist († 2007)
• 1918 » Juan José Arreola, Mexican writer and academic († 2001)
• 1918 » Karl Slover, American actor († 2011)
• 1919 » Mario Bunge, Argentinian-Canadian physicist and philosopher († 2020)