Bayliss Family Tree » Marjorie Joyce Violet Bassett (1919-2000)

Birthday August 23, 1919

• The temperature on August 23, 1919 was between 13.0 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • February 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
  • February 17 » The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
  • May 15 » Greek occupation of Smyrna. During the occupation, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks; those responsible are punished by Greek commander Aristides Stergiades.
  • October 17 » RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
  • October 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
  • December 17 » Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1985)
• 1919 » Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist († 1984)
• 1921 » Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)
• 1921 » Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire († 1996)
• 1922 » Jean Darling, American actress and singer († 2015)
• 1922 » Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet and academic († 2007)