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Birthday October 1, 1920

• The temperature on October 1, 1920 was between 9.9 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 10 » The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
  • January 19 » The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • November 2 » In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.
  • November 7 » Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Bob Boyd, American baseball player († 2004)
• 1919 » Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter († 2000)
• 1920 » David Herbert Donald, American historian and author († 2009)
• 1920 » Walter Matthau, American actor († 2000)
• 1921 » James Whitmore, American actor († 2009)
• 1922 » Chen-Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate