Kennedy Family Tree » Mabel Beatrice Wakeham (1920-2004)

Birthday May 7, 1920

• The temperature on May 7, 1920 was between 7.0 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 8 » The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
  • January 17 » Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.
  • May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
  • May 7 » Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
  • November 12 » Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
  • November 15 » The Free City of Danzig is established.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1921 » Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author († 1985)
• 1922 » Darren McGavin, American actor and director († 2006)
• 1922 » Joe O'Donnell, American photographer and journalist († 2007)