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Birthday October 6, 1916

• The temperature on October 6, 1916 was between 13.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
  • June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
  • July 22 » Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
  • August 28 » World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
  • September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
  • November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer († 2002)
• 1915 » Alice Timander, Swedish dentist and actress († 2007)
• 1915 » Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and activist († 2007)
• 1915 » Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal († 1983)
• 1916 » Chiang Wei-kuo, Japanese-Chinese general († 1997)
• 1917 » Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist († 1977)