February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of marriage May 25, 1920
The temperature on May 25, 1920 was between 15.0 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
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.
January 8 » The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
September 1 » The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
September 16 » The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
November 28 » FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France
Day of death September 20, 1967
The temperature on September 20, 1967 was between 8.9 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 13.0 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 26 » The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
May 30 » The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
June 2 » Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
June 2 » Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
October 8 » Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
November 14 » The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
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