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Birthday September 3, 1916

• The temperature on September 3, 1916 was between 12.7 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
  • February 3 » The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of 7 lives.
  • February 25 » In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.
  • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
  • July 22 » Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
  • September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
  • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Alan Ladd, American actor and producer († 1964)
• 1914 » Dixy Lee Ray, American biologist and politician, 17th Governor of Washington († 1994)
• 1915 » Knut Nystedt, Norwegian organist and composer († 2014)
• 1915 » Memphis Slim, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1988)
• 1916 » Eddie Stanky, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1999)
• 1918 » Helen Wagner, American actress († 2010)