Bißmeyer-Bissmeyer-Bismeyer-Bismeijer Family » No Name Penninkhof (1920)

Birthday October 24, 1920

• The temperature on October 24, 1920 was between -4.0 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
  • June 4 » Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
  • June 11 » During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
  • June 15 » Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.
  • November 15 » First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • December 3 » Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Doreen Tovey, English author († 2008)
• 1919 » Frank Piasecki, American engineer and pilot († 2008)
• 1920 » Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and academic († 1996)
• 1921 » R. K. Laxman, Indian illustrator († 2015)
• 1921 » Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager († 2005)
• 1922 » George Miller, American educator and politician, Mayor of Tucson († 2014)