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Birthday June 6, 1919

• The temperature on June 6, 1919 was between 10.3 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
  • February 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
  • February 6 » The American Legion is founded.
  • 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.
  • February 14 » The Polish–Soviet War begins.
  • May 29 » Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
  • September 22 » The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » Vincent Persichetti, American pianist and composer († 1987)
• 1916 » Hamani Diori, Nigerien academic and politician, 1st President of Niger († 1989)
• 1917 » Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founded the Tracinda Corporation († 2015)
• 1918 » Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1919 » Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, English army officer and politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO († 2018)
• 1923 » V. C. Andrews, American author, illustrator, and painter († 1986)