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Birthday September 13, 1919

• The temperature on September 13, 1919 was between 12.3 °C and 29.6 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
  • January 15 » Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
  • January 18 » World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
  • May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
  • October 9 » The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
  • November 11 » Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
  • December 23 » Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » Carol Kendall, American historian and author († 2012)
• 1918 » Dick Haymes, Argentinian actor and singer († 1980)
• 1918 » Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter and conductor († 2015)
• 1919 » George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, Austrian-English journalist, publisher, and philanthropist († 2016)
• 1919 » Mary Midgley, English philosopher and author († 2018)
• 1920 » Else Holmelund Minarik, Danish-American journalist and author († 2012)