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Birthday September 9, 1924

• The temperature on September 9, 1924 was between 12.0 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 29.0 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
  • March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
  • September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
  • October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
  • November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
  • 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

• 1922 » Bernard Bailyn, American historian, author, and academic († 2020)
• 1923 » Cliff Robertson, American actor († 2011)
• 1923 » Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)
• 1924 » Jane Greer, American actress († 2001)
• 1924 » Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist († 2003)
• 1924 » Russell M. Nelson, American captain, surgeon, and religious leader