January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
Day of marriage February 20, 1924
The average temperature on February 20, 1924 was -1.8 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
March 25 » On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
Day of death November 2, 1959
The temperature on November 2, 1959 was between 1.0 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 22 » Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
July 21 » NSSavannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
September 12 » Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
September 18 » Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
October 2 » Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. The first episode is “Where Is Everybody?”
October 12 » At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
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