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Birthday November 4, 1916

• The temperature on November 4, 1916 was between 10.2 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
  • June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
  • September 19 » World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
  • September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
  • November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
  • 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

• 1914 » Carlos Castillo Armas, Authoritarian ruler of Guatemala (1954-1957) († 1957)
• 1915 » Ismail Abdul Rahman, Malaysian politician († 1973)
• 1915 » Marguerite Patten, English economist and author († 2015)
• 1916 » John Basilone, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient († 1945)
• 1916 » Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created Barbie († 2002)
• 1916 » Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer († 2009)