Tangeman Genealogy » Annie Moir Ellen VERRALL (1920-1920)

Birthday July 15, 1920

• The temperature on July 15, 1920 was between 9.4 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
  • February 24 » Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
  • February 29 » Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
  • March 19 » The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
  • May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
  • August 11 » The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
  • August 20 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio

Source: Wikipedia

• 1918 » Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2003)
• 1918 » Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
• 1919 » Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant († 2012)
• 1919 » Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish British novelist and philosopher († 1999)
• 1921 » Henri Colpi, Swiss-French director and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1921 » Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)