Lax Family Tree » Phyllis Mary CHENOWETH (1921-1923)

Birthday January 25, 1921

• The temperature on January 25, 1921 was between 2.1 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
  • May 3 » The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
  • June 20 » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
  • October 19 » The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
  • November 4 » The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large riot in Munich.
  • November 14 » The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Edwin Newman, American journalist and author († 2010)
• 1921 » Josef Holeček, Czechoslovakian canoeist († 2005)
• 1921 » Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist and academic († 2010)
• 1922 » Raymond Baxter, English television host and pilot († 2006)
• 1923 » Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)
• 1923 » Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient († 1998)