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Birthday July 13, 1919

• The temperature on July 13, 1919 was between 7.9 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • 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.
  • May 15 » Greek occupation of Smyrna. During the occupation, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks; those responsible are punished by Greek commander Aristides Stergiades.
  • May 16 » A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
  • May 27 » The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
  • July 23 » Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University of Ljubljana
  • August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1918 » Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1918 » Ronald Bladen, American painter and sculptor († 1988)
• 1919 » Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China († 2020)
• 1919 » William F. Quinn, American lawyer († 2006)
• 1921 » Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer and conductor († 1999)