Familie Bakker » Hermen Jan van Wenum (1924-)

Birthday September 21, 1924

• The temperature on September 21, 1924 was between 11.5 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
  • June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
  • November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
  • 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.
  • December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1921 » John McHale, American baseball player and manager († 2008)
• 1923 » Fred Hunt, British jazz pianist († 1986)
• 1924 » Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer († 1957)
• 1926 » Don Dunstan, Fijian-Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia († 1999)
• 1926 » Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1926 » Fereydoon Moshiri, Iranian poet and critic († 2000)