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Birthday May 21, 1916

• The temperature on May 21, 1916 was between 8.7 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
  • January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
  • January 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
  • August 30 » Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
  • September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
  • November 18 » World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
  • December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Cathleen Cordell, American actress († 1997)
• 1915 » Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, Indian Civil Service Officer and former Under Secretary-General of the UN († 2003)
• 1916 » Dennis Day, American singer and actor († 1988)
• 1916 » Harold Robbins, American author and screenwriter († 1997)
• 1916 » Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter and police officer († 2002)
• 1917 » Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director († 1993)