January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
Day of marriage May 20, 1921
The temperature on May 20, 1921 was between 5.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
January 20 » The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
February 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
September 7 » In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
Day of death November 18, 1970
The temperature on November 18, 1970 was between 6.9 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 8.4 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 6 » An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
July 31 » Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
September 2 » NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
September 7 » Fighting begins between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Jordan.
September 16 » King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict which became to be known as Black September.
November 14 » Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
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