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Birthday February 14, 1921

• The temperature on February 14, 1921 was between 0.8 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
  • March 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
  • April 2 » The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
  • April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
  • July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Marcel Bigeard, French general († 2010)
• 1917 » Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1921 » Hazel McCallion, Canadian businesswoman and politician, 3rd Mayor of Mississauga
• 1921 » Hugh Downs, American journalist, game show host, and producer
• 1923 » Jay Hebert, American golfer († 1997)
• 1924 » Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma († 2017)