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Birthday November 22, 1916

• The temperature on November 22, 1916 was between 2.5 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 24 » In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
  • April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
  • July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
  • July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
  • September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
  • November 5 » The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1914 » Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot († 1995)
• 1915 » Oswald Morris, British cinematographer († 2014)
• 1917 » Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)
• 1917 » Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright († 2010)
• 1917 » Sir Keith Shann, Australian diplomat († 1988)
• 1918 » Claiborne Pell, American captain and politician († 2009)