Ancestral Trails 2016 » Ida Isabel ANDREWS (1919-2008)

Birthday January 13, 1919

• The temperature on January 13, 1919 was between 1.7 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • January 5 » The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
  • January 16 » Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
  • July 11 » The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
  • July 21 » The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
  • October 16 » Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
  • November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Robert Stack, American actor († 2003)
• 1921 » Arthur Stevens, English footballer, outside right (d. 2007}
• 1921 » Dachine Rainer, American-English author and poet († 2000)
• 1921 » Necati Cumalı, Greek-Turkish author and poet († 2001)
• 1922 » Albert Lamorisse, French director and producer († 1970)
• 1923 » Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist († 1997)