January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
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 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
Day of marriage August 13, 1920
The temperature on August 13, 1920 was between 8.6 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (63%). 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.
February 24 » The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
August 15 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
September 16 » The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
November 7 » Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
November 21 » Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday".
Day of death November 11, 1959
The temperature on November 11, 1959 was between 0.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 20 » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
April 9 » Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
April 25 » The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
July 21 » Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
October 21 » In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.
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