ShirekChamove Tree » Isaac Nathan Schreck Scherek (1919-1987)

Birthday May 6, 1919

• The temperature on May 6, 1919 was between 6.7 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
  • February 11 » Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
  • February 17 » The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
  • May 4 » May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
  • May 29 » Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
  • September 4 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
  • October 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » Kal Mann, American songwriter († 2001)
• 1918 » Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, emir of Abu Dhabi and first president of the United Arab Emirates († 2004)
• 1919 » André Guelfi, French race car driver († 2016)
• 1920 » Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Fiji († 2004)
• 1920 » Marguerite Piazza, American soprano and actress († 2012)
• 1921 » Erich Fried, Austrian-German author, poet, and translator († 1988)