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Birthday March 11, 1919

• The temperature on March 11, 1919 was between 10.2 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • February 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
  • February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
  • May 4 » May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
  • July 11 » The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
  • September 11 » United States Marine Corps invades Honduras.
  • October 16 » Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1916 » Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1995)
• 1920 » Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)
• 1921 » Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer and bandoneon player († 1992)
• 1921 » Frank Harary, American mathematician and academic († 2005)
• 1921 » Jeff Stollmeyer, Trinidadian cricketer († 1989)