March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
Day of death December 20, 1943
The temperature on December 20, 1943 was between 0.9 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 18 » Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
February 3 » The SSDorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.
June 12 » The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
July 4 » World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives.
August 31 » USSHarmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
November 29 » World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).
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