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Birthday May 25, 1921

• The temperature on May 25, 1921 was between 11.2 °C and 29.8 °C and averaged 20.8 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
  • May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
  • July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
  • July 10 » Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
  • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
  • November 11 » The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1920 » Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner and diplomat († 1992)
• 1921 » Hal David, American songwriter and composer († 2012)
• 1921 » Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1921 » Kitty Kallen, American singer († 2016)
• 1922 » Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician († 1984)
• 1924 » István Nyers, French-Hungarian footballer († 2005)