Genealogy Geensen » Cornelus Francois Hollander (1923-1989)

Birthday August 9, 1923

• The temperature on August 9, 1923 was between 10.5 °C and 31.0 °C and averaged 21.0 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 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 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
  • June 18 » Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
  • August 2 » Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
  • August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
  • September 29 » The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.
  • October 13 » Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1922 » Philip Larkin, English poet and novelist († 1985)
• 1924 » Frank Martínez, American soldier and painter († 2013)
• 1924 » Mathews Mar Barnabas, Indian metropolitan († 2012)
• 1925 » David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, developed Huffman coding († 1999)