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Birthday February 14, 1916

• The temperature on February 14, 1916 was between 4.1 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 10.3 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • April 8 » In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.
  • April 10 » The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
  • May 10 » Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
  • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  • September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
  • November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Mel Allen, American sportscaster († 1996)
• 1916 » Edward Platt, American actor († 1974)
• 1916 » Marcel Bigeard, French general († 2010)
• 1916 » Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director and producer († 1996)
• 1916 » Sally Gray, English actress and singer († 2006)
• 1917 » Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)