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Birthday October 1, 1924

• The temperature on October 1, 1924 was between 8.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
  • February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
  • May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
  • July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1922 » Chen-Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1924 » Bob Geigel, American wrestler and promoter († 2014)
• 1924 » Jimmy Carter, American naval lieutenant and politician, 39th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1924 » Leonie Kramer, Australian academic († 2016)
• 1924 » Roger Williams, American pianist († 2011)
• 1924 » William Rehnquist, American lawyer and jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States († 2005)