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Birthday October 31, 1916

• The temperature on October 31, 1916 was between 6.6 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
  • June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
  • July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
  • 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.
  • November 1 » In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
  • December 30 » The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » John Hugenholtz, Dutch engineer and designer († 1995)
• 1915 » Jane Jarvis, American pianist and composer († 2010)
• 1916 » Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg († 2012)
• 1917 » Gordon Steege, Australian soldier and pilot († 2013)
• 1917 » William H. McNeill, Canadian-American historian and author († 2016)
• 1918 » Ian Stevenson, American psychiatrist and academic († 2007)