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Birthday August 13, 1919

• The temperature on August 13, 1919 was between 10.9 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
  • January 15 » Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
  • January 18 » Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
  • 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 21 » The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
  • December 3 » After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
  • December 23 » Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » Sid Gordon, American baseball player († 1975)
• 1918 » Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1918 » Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago († 2006)
• 1919 » George Shearing, English jazz pianist and bandleader († 2011)
• 1919 » Rex Humbard, American evangelist and television host († 2007)
• 1920 » Neville Brand, American actor († 1992)