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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.
  • March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
  • March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • June 20 » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
  • August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
  • September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
  • October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 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)