Meyer Genealogy Tree » June D. Desper (1923-1994)

Birthday June 14, 1923

• The temperature on June 14, 1923 was between 6.3 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • January 11 » Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
  • April 18 » Yankee Stadium: "The House that Ruth Built" opens.
  • July 1 » The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
  • July 24 » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
  • August 18 » First British Track and Field championships for women, London.
  • September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1921 » Martha Greenhouse, American actress († 2013)
• 1923 » Green Wix Unthank, American soldier, lawyer, and judge († 2013)
• 1923 » Judith Kerr, German-English author and illustrator († 2019)
• 1924 » James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)
• 1925 » Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary († 2004)
• 1926 » Don Newcombe, American baseball player († 2019)