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Birthday December 15, 1916

• The temperature on December 15, 1916 was between 0.7 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 9 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
  • May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
  • June 4 » World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
  • July 22 » Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
  • November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
  • December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Eila Campbell, English geographer and cartographer († 1994)
• 1916 » Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor († 1964)
• 1916 » Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1916 » Miguel Arraes, Brazilian lawyer and politician, Governor of Pernambuco († 2005)
• 1917 » Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Indian-Pakistani linguist and lexicographer († 2005)
• 1918 » Jeff Chandler, American actor († 1961)