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Birthday May 26, 1919

• The temperature on May 26, 1919 was between 9.2 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
  • March 1 » March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
  • May 16 » A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
  • June 2 » Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
  • 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.
  • September 18 » Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist and author († 1972)
• 1919 » Rubén González, Cuban pianist († 2003)
• 1920 » Jack Cheetham, South African cricketer († 1980)
• 1920 » Peggy Lee, American singer-songwriter and actress († 2002)
• 1921 » Inge Borkh, German soprano († 2018)
• 1922 » Troy Smith, American businessman, founded Sonic Drive-In († 2009)