March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
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 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
Day of marriage December 16, 1920
The temperature on December 16, 1920 was between -11.6 °C and -5.3 °C and averaged -8.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 23 » The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
January 28 » Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
February 2 » The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
May 9 » Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
August 10 » World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI's representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
November 28 » FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France
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