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Birthday February 28, 1917

• The temperature on February 28, 1917 was between -0.2 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • February 23 » First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
  • March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
  • 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.
  • October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
  • November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Ketti Frings, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1915 » Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1915 » Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian († 1977)
• 1916 » Cesar Climaco, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of Zamboanga City († 1984)
• 1917 » Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer († 2007)
• 1919 » Alfred Marshall, American businessman, founded Marshalls († 2013)