Family tree Weening » Jan Kloosterman (1920-)

Birthday August 5, 1920

• The temperature on August 5, 1920 was between 10.2 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
  • February 9 » Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
  • February 29 » Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
  • May 5 » Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
  • 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 7 » Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
  • September 17 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Betty Oliphant, English-Canadian ballerina, co-founded Canada's National Ballet School († 2004)
• 1918 » Tom Drake, American actor and singer († 1982)
• 1920 » George Tooker, American painter and academic († 2011)
• 1921 » Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer († 2014)
• 1922 » Frank Stranahan, American golfer († 2013)
• 1922 » L. Tom Perry, American businessman and religious leader († 2015)