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Birthday October 17, 1921

• The temperature on October 17, 1921 was between 0.8 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 6 » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
  • March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
  • March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
  • July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
  • July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
  • 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 » Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author († 2010)
• 1920 » Montgomery Clift, American actor († 1966)
• 1921 » George Mackay Brown, Scottish author, poet, and playwright († 1996)
• 1921 » Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian-Israeli gymnast († 2001)
• 1921 » Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author († 2012)
• 1921 » Tom Poston, American actor and comedian († 2007)