January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
Day of death September 20, 1975
The temperature on September 20, 1975 was between 9.6 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
April 4 » Vietnam War: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, killing 172 people.
September 15 » The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).
September 16 » Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
September 24 » Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.
September 27 » The last use of capital punishment in Spain sparks worldwide protests.
October 10 » Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
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