Database Admiraal » Henri "Hans" Heertje (1921-)

Birthday May 23, 1921

• The temperature on May 23, 1921 was between 9.3 °C and 25.9 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
  • February 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
  • February 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • March 15 » Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
  • April 2 » The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
  • July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
  • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Betty Garrett, American actress, singer, and dancer († 2011)
• 1919 » Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright († 1988)
• 1919 » Ruth Fernández, Puerto Rican contralto and a member of the Puerto Rican Senate († 2012)
• 1920 » Helen O'Connell, American singer († 1993)
• 1923 » Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan-Spanish pianist († 2009)
• 1923 » Irving Millman, American virologist and microbiologist († 2012)