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Birthday April 20, 1918

• The temperature on April 20, 1918 was between -3.6 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1918: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
  • May 9 » World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
  • May 29 » Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
  • September 29 » Germany's Supreme Army Command tells the Kaiser and the Chancellor to open negotiations for an armistice.
  • November 3 » Austria-Hungary enters into the Armistice of Villa Giusti with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
  • December 1 » Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Nasiba Zeynalova, Azerbaijani actress († 2004)
• 1918 » Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2007)
• 1919 » Richard Hillary, Australian lieutenant and pilot († 1943)
• 1920 » Clement Isong, Nigerian banker and politician, Governor of Cross River State († 2000)
• 1920 » Frances Ames, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist († 2002)
• 1920 » Ronald Speirs, American colonel († 2007)