Database Schaap » Wilhelmus Johannes Meijers (1919-)

Birthday March 13, 1919

• The temperature on March 13, 1919 was between 0.3 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 11 » Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
  • February 26 » President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
  • May 29 » Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
  • June 7 » Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
  • November 11 » The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.
  • 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

• 1914 » W. O. Mitchell, Canadian author and playwright († 1998)
• 1916 » Jacque Fresco, American engineer and academic († 2017)
• 1916 » Lindy Boggs, American educator and politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the Holy See († 2013)
• 1920 » Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman, co-founded Comcast († 2015)
• 1921 » Al Jaffee, American cartoonist
• 1923 » Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek general († 2010)