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Birthday May 9, 1925

• The temperature on May 9, 1925 was between 7.3 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
  • April 16 » During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
  • May 1 » The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134million members.
  • May 14 » Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
  • July 25 » Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
  • November 28 » The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1924 » Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author († 1997)
• 1926 » John Middleton Murry, Jr., English soldier, pilot, and author († 2002)
• 1927 » Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2019)
• 1928 » Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player († 1995)
• 1928 » Ralph Goings, American painter († 2016)