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Birthday November 5, 1920

• The temperature on November 5, 1920 was between -6.5 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
  • February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
  • March 14 » In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
  • April 15 » Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
  • July 20 » The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
  • August 26 » The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1919 » Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar, and critic († 1978)
• 1919 » Myron Floren, American accordion player and pianist († 2005)
• 1920 » Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2015)
• 1920 » Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach († 2012)
• 1921 » Fawzia Fuad of Egypt († 2013)
• 1921 » Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer († 1994)