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Birthday January 7, 1921

• The temperature on January 7, 1921 was between 6.1 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). 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 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
  • March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
  • March 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
  • March 24 » The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
  • September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
  • October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1920 » Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor († 1992)
• 1921 » Chester Kallman, American poet and translator († 1975)
• 1921 » Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician († 1997)
• 1922 » Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager († 2014)
• 1922 » Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player († 2000)
• 1923 » Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic († 2003)