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Birthday October 14, 1916

• The temperature on October 14, 1916 was between 12.9 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
  • April 10 » The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
  • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
  • July 15 » In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
  • August 5 » World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
  • December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet and critic († 1985)
• 1914 » Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach († 2004)
• 1914 » Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)
• 1915 » Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal († 2016)
• 1916 » C. Everett Koop, American admiral and surgeon, 13th United States Surgeon General († 2013)
• 1918 » Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician († 1991)