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Day of death July 22, 1917

• The temperature on July 22, 1917 was between 9.1 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (85%). 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
  • May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
  • June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
  • August 28 » Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
  • October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
  • December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1908 » Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
• 1915 » Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
• 1916 » James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (b. 1849)
• 1918 » Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and first Indian fighter aircraft pilot (b. 1898)
• 1920 » William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1849)
• 1922 » Jōkichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist and academic (b. 1854)