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Birthday February 5, 1916

• The temperature on February 5, 1916 was between 2.3 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • January 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
  • February 25 » In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.
  • August 28 » World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
  • October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
  • November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
  • December 18 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1914 » William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist († 1997)
• 1915 » Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1990)
• 1917 » Edward J. Mortola, American academic and president of Pace University († 2002)
• 1917 » Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress († 2012)
• 1919 » Red Buttons, American actor († 2006)