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Birthday April 8, 1916

• The temperature on April 8, 1916 was between 2.1 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 4 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
  • February 29 » Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
  • April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
  • 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.
  • June 3 » The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » María Félix, Yaqui/Basque-Mexican actress († 2002)
• 1915 » Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer († 2007)
• 1917 » Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer († 1988)
• 1917 » Hubertus Ernst, Dutch bishop († 2017)
• 1917 » Lloyd Bott, Australian public servant († 2004)
• 1917 » Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist († 2007)