January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
Day of marriage June 23, 1920
The temperature on June 23, 1920 was between 9.6 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
July 12 » The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
October 10 » The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
November 1 » American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
November 15 » The Free City of Danzig is established.
Day of death April 19, 1932
The temperature on April 19, 1932 was between 2.7 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 4 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
May 20 » Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
May 28 » In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
July 30 » Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
October 3 » Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
December 7 » German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
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