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Birthday July 31, 1917

• The temperature on July 31, 1917 was between 10.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1 » The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
  • March 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
  • April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
  • July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
  • November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
  • November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Bill Todman, American screenwriter and producer († 1979)
• 1916 » Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 2006)
• 1916 » Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist († 1986)
• 1918 » Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman and financier († 1998)
• 1918 » Hank Jones, American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 2010)
• 1918 » Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)