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Birthday April 16, 1914

• The temperature on April 16, 1914 was between 3.5 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (87%). 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 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • July 29 » The Cape Cod Canal opened.
  • August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
  • August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
  • November 2 » World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
  • December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
  • December 14 » Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1911 » Guy Burgess, English-Russian spy († 1963)
• 1913 » Les Tremayne, English actor († 2003)
• 1914 » John Hodiak, American actor († 1955)
• 1915 » Robert Speck, Canadian politician, 1st Mayor of Mississauga († 1972)
• 1916 » Behçet Necatigil, Turkish author, poet, and translator († 1979)
• 1917 » Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli († 2013)