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Birthday February 1, 1925

• The temperature on February 1, 1925 was between 2.3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
  • January 3 » Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
  • February 28 » The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
  • April 30 » Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146million plus $50million for charity.
  • May 14 » Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
  • May 15 » Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.
  • July 25 » Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1922 » Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano and actress († 2004)
• 1923 » Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness († 2008)
• 1924 » Emmanuel Scheffer, German-Israeli footballer, coach, and manager († 2012)
• 1924 » Richard Hooker, American novelist († 1997)
• 1927 » Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic († 2014)
• 1928 » Sam Edwards, Welsh physicist and academic († 2015)