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Birthday December 15, 1921

• The temperature on December 15, 1921 was between 0.1 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
  • March 6 » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
  • March 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
  • March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
  • July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
  • August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
  • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.

Source: Wikipedia

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