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Birthday December 11, 1917

• The temperature on December 11, 1917 was between -1.7 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • February 3 » First World War: The American entry into World War I begins when diplomatic relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
  • June 5 » World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
  • July 6 » World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
  • August 28 » Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
  • September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Elena Garro, Mexican author and playwright († 1998)
• 1916 » Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader († 1989)
• 1918 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
• 1918 » Clinton Adams, American painter and historian († 2002)
• 1919 » Cliff Michelmore, English television host and producer († 2016)
• 1919 » Marie Windsor, American actress († 2000)