Genealogy Harssema » Iona Diosma Christian OLIPHANT (1919-1996)

Birthday December 30, 1919

• The temperature on December 30, 1919 was between 8.4 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
  • May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
  • June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
  • July 21 » The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
  • August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
  • December 17 » Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » Seymour Melman, American engineer and author († 2004)
• 1919 » David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor († 2015)
• 1919 » Dick Spooner, English cricketer († 1997)
• 1921 » Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon († 1987)
• 1922 » Jane Langton, American author and illustrator († 2018)
• 1923 » Prakash Vir Shastri, Indian academic and politician († 1977)