Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Dorothy M Wackerly (1920-1995)

Birthday July 10, 1920

• The temperature on July 10, 1920 was between 9.6 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • January 23 » The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
  • February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
  • March 8 » The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
  • March 28 » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
  • May 9 » Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
  • October 25 » After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Ian Wallace, English actor and singer († 2009)
• 1919 » Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic († 2009)
• 1920 » Cyril Grant, English footballer († 2002)
• 1920 » David Brinkley, American journalist († 2003)
• 1920 » Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)
• 1921 » Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the Smiley († 2001)