February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
June 11 » The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
August 24 » Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
Day of marriage November 20, 1923
The temperature on November 20, 1923 was between 1.2 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 12.9 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 9 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
February 16 » Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
April 18 » Yankee Stadium: "The House that Ruth Built" opens.
May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
September 13 » Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
October 22 » The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
Day of death November 16, 1970
The temperature on November 16, 1970 was between 0.4 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
August 15 » Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
August 17 » Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
September 9 » A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
September 28 » Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
October 26 » Muhammad Ali boxes for the first time after Ali's three-year hiatus due to draft evasion.
December 2 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
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