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Birthday August 6, 1921

• The temperature on August 6, 1921 was between 15.7 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
  • March 6 » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
  • June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
  • July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
  • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
  • December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Pauline Betz, American tennis player († 2011)
• 1920 » Ella Raines, American actress († 1988)
• 1920 » John Graves, American author († 2013)
• 1920 » Selma Diamond, Canadian-American actress and screenwriter († 1985)
• 1922 » Dan Walker, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Illinois († 2015)
• 1922 » Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways († 2006)