January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of marriage October 20, 1917
The temperature on October 20, 1917 was between 3.1 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 24 » World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
March 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
March 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
December 7 » World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
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