Van Venrooij » Jan Johannes (1924-)

Birthday June 9, 1924

• The temperature on June 9, 1924 was between 10.8 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
  • March 8 » A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
  • April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
  • May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
  • September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
  • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1922 » John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Anglo-American pilot and poet († 1941)
• 1923 » Gerald Götting, German politician († 2015)
• 1924 » Ed Farhat, American wrestler and manager († 2003)
• 1925 » Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks († 2014)
• 1925 » Keith Laumer, American soldier and author († 1993)