January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
Day of marriage October 20, 1920
The temperature on October 20, 1920 was between -2.5 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
January 10 » League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris.
January 17 » Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.
February 14 » The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
July 15 » The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
August 13 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
December 19 » King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
Day of death November 16, 1999
The temperature on November 16, 1999 was between -3.8 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 19 » British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
April 9 » Kosovo War: The Battle of Košare begins.
April 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
May 6 » The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
August 26 » Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
December 18 » NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
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