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Birthday January 28, 1924

• The temperature on January 28, 1924 was between -1.0 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • April 1 » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
  • April 8 » Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
  • May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
  • September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
  • December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1921 » Vytautas Norkus, Lithuanian–American basketball player († 2014)
• 1922 » Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founded Anna Records († 2014)
• 1922 » Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1993)
• 1924 » Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet († 1976)
• 1925 » Raja Ramanna, Indian physicist and politician († 2004)
• 1926 » Jimmy Bryan, American race car driver († 1960)