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Birthday March 11, 1920

• The average temperature on March 11, 1920 was 3.1 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • February 14 » The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
  • February 20 » An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.
  • February 24 » Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
  • March 22 » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
  • September 17 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.
  • December 3 » Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1920 » Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)
• 1921 » Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer and bandoneon player († 1992)
• 1921 » Frank Harary, American mathematician and academic († 2005)
• 1921 » Jeff Stollmeyer, Trinidadian cricketer († 1989)
• 1922 » Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher († 1997)
• 1922 » José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor and director († 2009)