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Birthday April 18, 1916

• The temperature on April 18, 1916 was between 6.3 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 9.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
  • August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
  • August 16 » The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
  • October 27 » Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
  • November 5 » The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
  • 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).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Claire Martin, Canadian author († 2014)
• 1915 » Joy Davidman, Polish-Ukrainian Jewish American poet and author († 1960)
• 1916 » Carl Burgos, American illustrator († 1984)
• 1916 » Doug Peden, Canadian basketball player († 2005)
• 1917 » Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player († 1947)
• 1918 » Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer († 2014)