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Birthday December 9, 1920

• The temperature on December 9, 1920 was between -2.3 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 7 » The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
  • January 19 » The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
  • March 28 » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
  • 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 9 » Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
  • August 11 » The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Joyce Redman, Irish-born British actress († 2012)
• 1919 » V. Dakshinamoorthy, Indian singer-songwriter († 2013)
• 1919 » William Lipscomb, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1920 » Bruno Ruffo, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver († 2007)
• 1920 » Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy († 2016)
• 1922 » Redd Foxx, American actor († 1991)