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Birthday March 4, 1917

• The temperature on March 4, 1917 was between -3.9 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
  • January 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
  • June 5 » World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
  • July 6 » World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
  • July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
  • November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
  • November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Ernest Titterton, British Australian nuclear physicist († 1990)
• 1916 » Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet († 2000)
• 1916 » Hans Eysenck, German-English psychologist and theorist († 1997)
• 1916 » William Alland, American actor, director, and producer († 1997)
• 1917 » Clyde McCullough, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1982)
• 1918 » Kurt Dahlmann, German pilot, lawyer, and journalist († 2017)