July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
Day of marriage February 28, 1920
The temperature on February 28, 1920 was between -0.9 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 2 » The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.
May 16 » In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
August 10 » World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
August 13 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
August 16 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Radzymin concludes; the Soviet Red Army is forced to turn away from Warsaw.
December 22 » The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
Day of death December 8, 1979
The temperature on December 8, 1979 was between 8.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 13 » An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a ⁄2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
April 4 » Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
May 25 » American Airlines Flight 191: A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
July 19 » The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
November 16 » The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
November 17 » Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
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