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Birthday November 8, 1919

• The temperature on November 8, 1919 was between -1.1 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 16 » Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
  • January 18 » Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
  • February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
  • 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 6 » The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher († 2015)
• 1918 » Kazuo Sakamaki, Japanese soldier († 1999)
• 1919 » James S. Ackerman, American historian and academic († 2016)
• 1920 » Esther Rolle, American actress († 1998)
• 1920 » Eugênio Sales, Brazilian cardinal († 2012)
• 1920 » Sitara Devi, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer († 2014)