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Birthday January 18, 1919

• The temperature on January 18, 1919 was between -0.5 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 16 » Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
  • April 13 » Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops lead by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer killed approx 379-1000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.
  • 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.
  • October 16 » Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
  • December 1 » Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
  • December 26 » Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Syl Apps, Canadian pole vaulter, ice hockey player, and politician († 1998)
• 1917 » Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient († 2013)
• 1917 » Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese-American businessman († 2008)
• 1918 » Gustave Gingras, Canadian-English physician and educator († 1996)
• 1919 » Toni Turek, German footballer († 1984)
• 1921 » Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2015)