January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Day of marriage November 20, 1924
The temperature on November 20, 1924 was between 2.4 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
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