Sherren Family Tree » William Blythe Mayfield (1920-1983)

Birthday June 18, 1920

• The temperature on June 18, 1920 was between 12.7 °C and 27.1 °C and averaged 20.3 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 10 » League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris.
  • January 10 » The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
  • May 7 » Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
  • 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.
  • October 25 » After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
  • November 21 » Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Alf Francis, West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor († 1983)
• 1918 » Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2003)
• 1918 » Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1919 » Jüri Järvet, Estonian actor and screenwriter († 1995)
• 1920 » Ian Carmichael, English actor and singer († 2010)
• 1920 » Lode Van Den Bergh, Belgian author and academic