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Birthday January 5, 1917

• The temperature on January 5, 1917 was between -1.2 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
  • August 30 » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
  • October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
  • November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
  • November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
  • December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian geographer and cartographer († 2004)
• 1917 » Francis L. Kellogg, American businessman and diplomat († 2006)
• 1917 » Jane Wyman, American actress († 2007)
• 1917 » Wieland Wagner, German director and producer († 1966)
• 1919 » Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and politician († 2012)
• 1919 » Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flute player († 1992)