January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
January 23 » The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President.
February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
Day of marriage June 5, 1920
The temperature on June 5, 1920 was between 4.9 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
February 13 » The Negro National League is formed.
May 7 » Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
May 9 » Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
October 10 » The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
December 11 » Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for a recent IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians report being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.
December 24 » Gabriele D'Annunzio surrendered the Italian Regency of Carnaro in the city of Fiume to Italian armed forces.
Day of death August 1, 1968
The temperature on August 1, 1968 was between 15.4 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
July 1 » The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
September 24 » First episode of 60 Minutes airs on television.
September 30 » The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
December 25 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
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