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Birthday December 11, 1919

• The temperature on December 11, 1919 was between -4.9 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
  • January 7 » Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
  • January 18 » World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
  • May 4 » May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
  • May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
  • June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
  • September 10 » Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
• 1918 » Clinton Adams, American painter and historian († 2002)
• 1919 » Cliff Michelmore, English television host and producer († 2016)
• 1919 » Marie Windsor, American actress († 2000)
• 1920 » Denis Jenkinson, English motorcycle racer and journalist († 1996)
• 1920 » Mary Ivy Burks, American environmental activist († 2007)