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Birthday April 17, 1921

• The temperature on April 17, 1921 was between -3.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
  • March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
  • March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
  • June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
  • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer-songwriter and actress († 2012)
• 1919 » Gilles Lamontagne, Canadian lieutenant and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 2016)
• 1920 » Edmonde Charles-Roux, French journalist and author († 2016)
• 1923 » Lindsay Anderson, English actor, director, and screenwriter († 1994)
• 1923 » Neville McNamara, Australian air marshal († 2014)
• 1923 » Solly Hemus, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 2017)