January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
November 27 » At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
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 20 » The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
February 21 » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
March 15 » Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
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
January 22 » The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
March 5 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
March 28 » An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring 1,260.
May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
July 3 » Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashes into the Les Agudes mountain in the Montseny Massif near the village of Arbúcies in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.
December 23 » The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417m), making it the tallest building in the world.
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