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Birthday December 13, 1921

• The temperature on December 13, 1921 was between -3.1 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
  • February 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  • March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
  • July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
  • October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
  • October 13 » Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot († 1942)
• 1920 » George P. Shultz, American economist and politician, 60th United States Secretary of State
• 1921 » Turgut Demirağ, Turkish film producer, director and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1923 » Edward Bede Clancy, Australian cardinal († 2014)
• 1923 » Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2020)
• 1923 » Terence Beckett, English businessman († 2013)