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Birthday December 14, 1921

• The temperature on December 14, 1921 was between 0.1 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. The average windspeed was 3 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
  • July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
  • July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
  • September 5 » Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.
  • September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » James T. Aubrey, American broadcaster († 1994)
• 1920 » Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator († 2015)
• 1922 » Don Hewitt, American journalist and producer, created 60 Minutes († 2009)
• 1922 » Junior J. Spurrier, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient († 1984)
• 1922 » Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2001)
• 1923 » Gerard Reve, Dutch-Belgian author and poet († 2006)