Meek Genealogy » Lilian Rose Hardwick (1920-2009)

Birthday March 16, 1920

• The temperature on March 16, 1920 was between 0.6 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 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 28 » Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
  • March 14 » In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
  • August 26 » The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
  • September 16 » The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
  • November 16 » Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect († 1999)
• 1918 » Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1920 » John Addison, English-American soldier and composer († 1998)
• 1920 » Leo McKern, Australian-English actor († 2002)
• 1920 » Sid Fleischman, American author and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1920 » Traudl Junge, German secretary († 2002)