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Birthday August 23, 1917

• The temperature on August 23, 1917 was between 15.2 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • March 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
  • April 12 » World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
  • October 31 » World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
  • November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
  • December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.
  • December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1919 » Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist († 1984)
• 1921 » Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)
• 1921 » Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire († 1996)