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Birthday August 23, 1918

• The temperature on August 23, 1918 was between 13.0 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
  • August 11 » World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
  • October 8 » World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
  • November 11 » World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
  • November 21 » The Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as the national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
  • December 28 » Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1917 » Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1985)
• 1919 » Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist († 1984)
• 1921 » Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)
• 1921 » Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire († 1996)
• 1922 » Jean Darling, American actress and singer († 2015)
• 1922 » Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet and academic († 2007)