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Birthday March 3, 1919

• The temperature on March 3, 1919 was between 5.0 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
  • May 15 » Greek occupation of Smyrna. During the occupation, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks; those responsible are punished by Greek commander Aristides Stergiades.
  • June 7 » Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
  • June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
  • June 23 » Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
  • 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

• 1917 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic († 1952)
• 1918 » Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2007)
• 1920 » James Doohan, Canadian-American actor and soldier († 2005)
• 1920 » Julius Boros, American golfer and accountant († 1994)
• 1920 » Ronald Searle, English-French soldier and illustrator († 2011)
• 1921 » Diana Barrymore, American actress († 1960)