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Birthday February 3, 1916

• The temperature on February 3, 1916 was between -0.5 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 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.
  • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
  • June 3 » The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
  • August 29 » The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
  • November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
  • 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

• 1912 » Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician († 1990)
• 1914 » Mary Carlisle, American actress, singer, and dancer († 2018)
• 1915 » Johannes Kotkas, Estonian wrestler and hammer thrower († 1998)
• 1917 » Shlomo Goren, Polish-Israeli rabbi and general († 1994)
• 1918 » Helen Stephens, American runner, baseball player, and manager († 1994)
• 1918 » Joey Bishop, American actor and producer († 2007)