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Birthday May 19, 1916

• The temperature on May 19, 1916 was between 6.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
  • April 29 » Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
  • May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
  • May 10 » Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
  • June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
  • November 13 » World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1913 » Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th President of India († 1996)
• 1914 » Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player († 2005)
• 1914 » John Vachon, American photographer and journalist († 1975)
• 1914 » Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2002)
• 1915 » Renée Asherson, English actress († 2014)
• 1918 » Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist, historian, and academic († 2000)