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Birthday October 18, 1921

• The temperature on October 18, 1921 was between 4.2 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
  • July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
  • July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
  • September 8 » Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
  • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
  • November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Anita O'Day, American singer († 2006)
• 1919 » Ric Nordman, Canadian captain and politician († 1996)
• 1920 » Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture († 1994)
• 1921 » Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic († 1972)
• 1921 » Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist († 2005)
• 1921 » Jesse Helms, American soldier, journalist, and politician († 2008)