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Birthday February 21, 1921

• The temperature on February 21, 1921 was between -2.8 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
  • May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
  • September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
  • October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
  • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
  • October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer († 1996)
• 1921 » John Rawls, American philosopher and academic († 2002)
• 1921 » Richard T. Whitcomb, American aeronautical engineer († 2009)
• 1924 » Dorothy Blum, American computer scientist and cryptanalyst († 1980)
• 1924 » Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean educator and politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe († 2019)
• 1924 » Thelma Estrin, American computer scientist and engineer († 2014)