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Birthday October 31, 1919

• The temperature on October 31, 1919 was between 2.5 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • January 15 » Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
  • January 16 » Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
  • February 17 » The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
  • March 23 » In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
  • July 13 » The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
  • July 21 » The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Ian Stevenson, American psychiatrist and academic († 2007)
• 1919 » Daphne Oxenford, English actress († 2012)
• 1919 » Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician and author († 2017)
• 1920 » Dick Francis, Welsh-Caymanian jockey and author († 2010)
• 1920 » Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer († 2004)
• 1920 » Joseph Gelineau, French priest and composer († 2008)