Genealogy Slot » Harmannes (Mannes) Blom (1921-1975)

Birthday December 24, 1921

• The temperature on December 24, 1921 was between -1.2 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • March 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
  • March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
  • May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
  • May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
  • September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
  • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1920 » Franco Lucentini, Italian author and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1920 » Yevgeniya Rudneva, Ukrainian-Russian lieutenant and navigator († 1944)
• 1921 » Bill Dudley, American football player († 2010)
• 1922 » Ava Gardner, American actress († 1990)