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Birthday January 13, 1926

• The temperature on January 13, 1926 was between -8.2 °C and -2.4 °C and averaged -5.6 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
  • May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
  • August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
  • August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
  • August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
  • September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1925 » Ron Tauranac, Australian engineer and businessman
• 1925 » Rosemary Murphy, American actress († 2014)
• 1925 » Vanita Smythe, American singer and actress († 1994)
• 1926 » Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic († 2003)
• 1926 » Melba Liston, American trombonist and composer († 1999)
• 1926 » Michael Bond, English soldier and author, created Paddington Bear († 2017)