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Birthday December 21, 1916

• The temperature on December 21, 1916 was between -1.5 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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.
  • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
  • June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
  • June 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
  • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
  • July 15 » In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
  • August 28 » World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Arnold Friberg, American illustrator and painter († 2010)
• 1914 » Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist and virologist († 2010)
• 1915 » Werner von Trapp, Austrian-American singer († 2007)
• 1917 » Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1918 » Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff († 2003)
• 1918 » Kurt Waldheim, Austrian colonel, war criminal, and politician; 9th President of Austria († 2007)