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Birthday January 6, 1919

• The temperature on January 6, 1919 was between 2.9 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 » Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
  • January 22 » Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
  • May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
  • August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
  • 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.
  • November 11 » Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » Koo Chen-fu, Taiwanese businessman and diplomat († 2005)
• 1920 » Early Wynn, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster († 1999)
• 1920 » John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist († 2004)
• 1920 » Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader; founder of the Unification Church († 2012)
• 1921 » Cary Middlecoff, American golfer and sportscaster († 1998)
• 1921 » Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic († 2013)