Family tree Klavers » Albert Westerhof (1922-< 2021)

Birthday August 24, 1922

• The temperature on August 24, 1922 was between 9.4 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1922: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
  • January 11 » First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
  • February 28 » The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
  • March 10 » Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
  • March 26 » The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
  • October 19 » British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party.
  • December 30 » The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1922 » Howard Zinn, American historian, author, and activist († 2010)
• 1922 » René Lévesque, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec († 1987)
• 1923 » Arthur Jensen, American psychologist and academic († 2012)