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Birthday October 4, 1919

• The temperature on October 4, 1919 was between 10.5 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 7 » Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
  • January 22 » Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
  • May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
  • June 23 » Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
  • July 6 » The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
  • July 27 » The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » George Sidney, American director and producer († 2002)
• 1916 » Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host († 2006)
• 1916 » Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1917 » Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1967)
• 1918 » Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1921 » Stella Pevsner, American children's author († 2020)