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Birthday February 10, 1917

• The temperature on February 10, 1917 was between -6.6 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
  • May 27 » Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
  • June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
  • 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 6 » World War I: USSJacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SMU-53.
  • December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Larry Adler, American harmonica player, composer, and actor († 2001)
• 1915 » Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor († 2016)
• 1919 » Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece († 2014)
• 1920 » Alex Comfort, English physician and author († 2000)
• 1920 » José Manuel Castañón, Spanish lawyer and author († 2001)
• 1920 » Neva Patterson, American actress († 2010)