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Birthday June 16, 1917

• The temperature on June 16, 1917 was between 16.3 °C and 32.4 °C and averaged 24.0 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
  • March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
  • June 28 » World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
  • November 8 » The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
  • November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
  • November 26 » The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » John Tukey, American mathematician and academic († 2000)
• 1915 » Marga Faulstich, German glass chemist († 1998)
• 1917 » Aurelio Lampredi, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer († 1989)
• 1917 » Irving Penn, American photographer († 2009)
• 1917 » Katharine Graham, American publisher († 2001)
• 1917 » Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general and politician, President of Greece († 1999)