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Birthday November 11, 1920

• The temperature on November 11, 1920 was between 0.2 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 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 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 7 » The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
  • January 17 » Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.
  • May 5 » Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
  • July 12 » The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
  • October 10 » The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
  • November 1 » American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1919 » Kalle Päätalo, Finnish soldier and author († 2000)
• 1920 » Roy Jenkins, Welsh-English captain, academic, and politician, President of the European Commission († 2003)
• 1920 » Walter Krupinski, German captain and pilot († 2000)
• 1921 » Terrel Bell, American sergeant, academic, and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Education († 1996)
• 1922 » Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist († 2007)