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Birthday June 18, 1917

• The temperature on June 18, 1917 was between 15.6 °C and 29.4 °C and averaged 21.8 °C. There was 31.4 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 24 » World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
  • April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
  • April 12 » World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
  • September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
  • December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
  • December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia († 2005)
• 1917 » Erik Ortvad, Danish painter and illustrator († 2008)
• 1917 » Jack Karnehm, English snooker player and sportscaster († 2002)
• 1917 » Richard Boone, American actor, singer, and director († 1981)
• 1918 » Alf Francis, West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor († 1983)
• 1918 » Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)