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Birthday October 22, 1920

• The temperature on October 22, 1920 was between -4.1 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 17 » Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.
  • February 9 » Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
  • May 7 » Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
  • August 13 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
  • September 7 » Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Finnish Air Force, killing both crews.
  • November 28 » FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1919 » Kathleen Ankers, English-American actress and set designer († 2001)
• 1920 » Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author († 1996)
• 1921 » Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist († 1986)
• 1921 » Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1981)
• 1921 » Harald Nugiseks, Estonian sergeant († 2014)