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Birthday June 18, 1920

• The temperature on June 18, 1920 was between 12.1 °C and 25.8 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 28 » Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
  • February 2 » The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
  • March 19 » The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
  • 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 10 » World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
  • September 17 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Alf Francis, West Prussia-born, English motor racing mechanic and race car constructor († 1983)
• 1918 » Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2003)
• 1918 » Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2013)
• 1919 » Jüri Järvet, Estonian actor and screenwriter († 1995)
• 1920 » Ian Carmichael, English actor and singer († 2010)
• 1920 » Lode Van Den Bergh, Belgian author and academic