May 8 » The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
September 2 » Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
December 10 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
Day of death September 20, 1962
The temperature on September 20, 1962 was between 1.8 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
November 24 » Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
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