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Birthday April 28, 1919

• The temperature on April 28, 1919 was between -2.0 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 20.3 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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.
  • May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
  • May 15 » The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
  • June 2 » Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
  • September 18 » The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
  • December 1 » Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
  • December 26 » Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, created Lamborghini († 1993)
• 1917 » Robert Cornthwaite, American actor († 2006)
• 1921 » Rowland Evans, American soldier, journalist, and author († 2001)
• 1921 » Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic († 2012)
• 1923 » Carolyn Cassady, American author († 2013)
• 1923 » William Guarnere, American sergeant († 2014)