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Birthday July 15, 1917

• The temperature on July 15, 1917 was between 13.7 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 21.9 mm of rain. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • April 6 » World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
  • April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
  • May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
  • June 23 » In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
  • July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
  • September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1917 » Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic († 2015)
• 1918 » Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2003)
• 1918 » Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic