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Birthday March 22, 1917

• The temperature on March 22, 1917 was between -4.0 and 5.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • March 8 » International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
  • March 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
  • March 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
  • October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
  • December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.
  • December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » John Stanley, American author and illustrator († 1993)
• 1917 » Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-American mathematician and academic († 2006)
• 1917 » Paul Rogers, English actor († 2013)
• 1917 » Virginia Grey, American actress († 2004)
• 1918 » Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana († 1997)
• 1919 » Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator († 1990)