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Birthday December 6, 1921

• The temperature on December 6, 1921 was between -3.1 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
  • February 12 » Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
  • February 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
  • March 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
  • June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
  • October 13 » Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
  • October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1920 » George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2002)
• 1920 » Peter Dimmock, English sportscaster and producer († 2015)
• 1921 » Otto Graham, American football player and coach († 2003)
• 1921 » Piero Piccioni, Italian lawyer, pianist, and composer († 2004)
• 1922 » John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient († 1944)