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Birthday March 24, 1919

• The temperature on March 24, 1919 was between -3.2 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 16 » Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
  • January 31 » The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, during a campaign for shorter working hours.
  • April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
  • June 11 » Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
  • July 13 » The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
  • September 4 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1919 » Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore
• 1919 » Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian († 2005)
• 1920 » Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1920 » Mary Stolz, American author († 2006)
• 1921 » Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player († 2010)