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Birthday December 16, 1921

• The temperature on December 16, 1921 was between 0.4 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 1.2 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.
  • January 20 » The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
  • February 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
  • March 15 » Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
  • 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.
  • May 3 » West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
  • August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1920 » Frederick Rotimi Williams, Nigerian lawyer and politician († 2005)
• 1921 » Eulalio González, Mexican singer-songwriter, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2003)
• 1922 » Cy Leslie, American record producer, founded Pickwick Records († 2008)
• 1923 » Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist († 2014)
• 1923 » Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist
• 1924 » Nicolas Sidjakov, Latvian-American illustrator († 1993)