February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of marriage January 2, 1920
The temperature on January 2, 1920 was between -2.2 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
May 5 » Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
August 25 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
August 26 » The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
September 1 » The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
November 15 » The Free City of Danzig is established.
Day of death February 20, 1982
The temperature on February 20, 1982 was between -4.6 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
July 9 » Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
September 1 » The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
October 1 » Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan. On the same day, Sony released the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind.
November 1 » Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio; a Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
November 3 » The Salang Tunnel fire in Afghanistan by kills 150–2000 people.
December 3 » A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
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