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Birthday January 9, 1920

• The temperature on January 9, 1920 was between 0.6 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 2 » The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.
  • February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
  • February 20 » An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.
  • July 11 » In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany.
  • November 28 » FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France
  • December 19 » King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1919 » William Morris Meredith, Jr., American poet and academic († 2007)
• 1920 » Clive Dunn, English actor († 2012)
• 1920 » Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh († 1998)
• 1921 » Ágnes Keleti, Hungarian Olympic gymnast
• 1922 » Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist and academic, Nobel laureate († 2011)