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Birthday December 20, 1919

• The temperature on December 20, 1919 was between 1.5 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
  • January 15 » Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
  • February 21 » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
  • June 2 » Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
  • July 13 » The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
  • July 21 » The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
  • October 17 » RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Michel Chartrand, Canadian trade union leader and activist († 2010)
• 1917 » Audrey Totter, American actress († 2013)
• 1917 » Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author († 1997)
• 1917 » David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher († 1992)
• 1918 » Jean Marchand, Canadian trade union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada († 1988)
• 1922 » George Roy Hill, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2002)