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Birthday July 31, 1924

• The temperature on July 31, 1924 was between 11.5 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • March 16 » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
  • 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 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
  • May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
  • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1922 » Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager († 2007)
• 1923 » Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American songwriter and producer, founded Atlantic Records († 2006)
• 1923 » Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer, invented Kevlar († 2014)
• 1924 » Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach († 2015)
• 1925 » Carmel Quinn, Irish singer, actress and writer
• 1925 » John Swainson, Canadian-American jurist and politician, 42nd Governor of Michigan († 1994)