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Birthday January 3, 1917

• The temperature on January 3, 1917 was between 8.8 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • June 11 » King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
  • July 12 » The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
  • August 18 » A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
  • August 28 » Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
  • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
  • December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1916 » Betty Furness, American actress and television journalist († 1994)
• 1916 » Fred Haas, American golfer († 2004)
• 1917 » Albert Mol, Dutch author and actor († 2002)
• 1917 » Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American journalist and publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux († 2004)
• 1917 » Vernon A. Walters, American general and diplomat, 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 2002)