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Birthday June 1, 1919

• The temperature on June 1, 1919 was between 4.9 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 18 » Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
  • May 27 » The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
  • May 29 » Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
  • June 21 » Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
  • July 13 » The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
  • November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Jean Jérôme Hamer, Belgian Cardinal († 1996)
• 1917 » William Standish Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)
• 1920 » Robert Clarke, American actor and producer († 2005)
• 1921 » Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader († 1985)
• 1922 » Joan Caulfield, American model and actress († 1991)
• 1922 » Povel Ramel, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist († 2007)