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Birthday May 20, 1921

• The temperature on May 20, 1921 was between 5.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 20 » The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
  • February 12 » Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
  • March 1 » The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
  • April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
  • June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
  • September 7 » In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » George Gobel, American comedian († 1991)
• 1920 » John Cruickshank, Scottish lieutenant and banker, Victoria Cross recipient
• 1921 » Hal Newhouser, American baseball player and scout († 1998)
• 1921 » Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician († 1995)
• 1921 » Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright († 1947)
• 1922 » Ted Hinton, Northern Irish international footballer († 1988)