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Birthday May 22, 1923

• The temperature on May 22, 1923 was between 8.8 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1923: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
  • February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
  • June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
  • August 18 » First British Track and Field championships for women, London.
  • August 23 » Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
  • October 6 » The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Paul Vanden Boeynants, Belgian businessman and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Belgium († 2001)
• 1920 » Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic († 2004)
• 1921 » George S. Hammond, American scientist († 2005)
• 1922 » Quinn Martin, American screenwriter and producer († 1987)
• 1924 » Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor († 2018)
• 1925 » Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor († 1991)