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Birthday April 27, 1916

• The temperature on April 27, 1916 was between 10.3 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 10 » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
  • June 10 » The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
  • August 16 » The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
  • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
  • 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.
  • December 30 » The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic († 2012)
• 1913 » Philip Abelson, American physicist and author († 2004)
• 1916 » Enos Slaughter, American baseball player and manager († 2002)
• 1916 » Robert Hugh McWilliams, Jr., American sergeant, lawyer, and judge († 2013)
• 1917 » Roman Matsov, Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor († 2001)
• 1918 » Sten Rudholm, Swedish lawyer and jurist († 2008)