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Birthday April 20, 1926

• The temperature on April 20, 1926 was between 3.8 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1926: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
  • May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
  • May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
  • July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
  • August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
  • November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
  • November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1924 » Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress († 2008)
• 1925 » Elena Verdugo, American actress († 2017)
• 1925 » Ernie Stautner, German-American football player and coach († 2006)
• 1927 » Bud Cullen, Canadian judge and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Employment and Immigration († 2005)
• 1927 » K. Alex Müller, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 » Phil Hill, American race car driver († 2008)