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Birthday January 6, 1917

• The temperature on January 6, 1917 was between -0.3 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
  • May 21 » The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
  • June 11 » King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
  • October 12 » World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
  • October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
  • November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Godfrey Edward Arnold, Austrian-American physician and academic († 1989)
• 1915 » Alan Watts, English-American philosopher and author († 1973)
• 1915 » Don Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician († 2015)
• 1915 » John C. Lilly, American psychoanalyst, physician, and philosopher († 2001)
• 1916 » Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic († 1978)
• 1917 » Koo Chen-fu, Taiwanese businessman and diplomat († 2005)