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Birthday April 20, 1919

• The temperature on April 20, 1919 was between 3.5 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • February 11 » Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
  • February 17 » The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
  • February 26 » President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
  • May 15 » The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
  • August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
  • November 11 » The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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 » John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States († 2019)
• 1920 » Ronald Speirs, American colonel († 2007)