Eijsermans family tree » Petrus Hendricus van Gils (1920-1995)

Birthday March 15, 1920

• The temperature on March 15, 1920 was between 1.9 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 13 » The Reichstag Bloodbath of January 13, 1920, the bloodiest demonstration in German history.
  • May 29 » The Louth flood of 1920 was a severe flash flooding in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth which occurred 29 May 1920, resulting in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in Britain during the 20th century.
  • June 11 » During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political phrase "smoke-filled room".
  • June 15 » Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.
  • July 12 » The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
  • August 20 » The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1919 » Lawrence Tierney, American actor († 2002)
• 1920 » E. Donnall Thomas, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)
• 1921 » Madelyn Pugh, American television writer and producer († 2011)
• 1922 » Eddie Calvert, English trumpeter († 1978)