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Birthday November 12, 1919

• The temperature on November 12, 1919 was between -4.8 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • March 1 » March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
  • April 10 » Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
  • 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.
  • June 4 » Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
  • July 11 » The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
  • August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic († 2000)
• 1916 » Paul Emery, English race car driver († 1993)
• 1917 » Jo Stafford, American singer († 2008)
• 1919 » France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1920 » Richard Quine, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1989)
• 1922 » Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, author, and journalist († 1951)