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Birthday July 31, 1916

• The temperature on July 31, 1916 was between 9.9 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
  • March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
  • May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
  • July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
  • September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
  • November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter († 1983)
• 1914 » Paul J. Christiansen, American conductor and composer († 1997)
• 1916 » Bill Todman, American screenwriter and producer († 1979)
• 1916 » Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 2006)
• 1916 » Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist († 1986)
• 1918 » Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)