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Birthday December 6, 1917

• The temperature on December 6, 1917 was between -7.6 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -2.7 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (64%). 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
  • June 28 » World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
  • September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
  • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
  • November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
  • December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and producer († 1986)
• 1916 » Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic educator and politician, 3rd President of Iceland († 1982)
• 1916 » Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot († 1943)
• 1917 » Dean Hess, American minister and colonel († 2015)
• 1917 » Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins († 2008)
• 1917 » Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician († 1977)