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Birthday August 31, 1924

• The temperature on August 31, 1924 was between 11.8 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 9.2 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
  • August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
  • September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
  • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
  • December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
  • December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1924 » Herbert Wise, Austrian-English director and producer († 2015)
• 1924 » John Davidson, American physician and politician († 2012)
• 1925 » Maurice Pialat, French actor and director († 2003)
• 1925 » Moran Campbell, English-Canadian physician and academic, invented the venturi mask († 2004)