April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
June 12 » Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
June 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
July 25 » Spanish-American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held Puerto Rico begins, as United States Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at Guánica.
October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
December 10 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
Day of marriage April 30, 1920
The temperature on April 30, 1920 was between 3.8 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 10 » League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16 the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris.
January 17 » Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.
January 19 » The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
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 1 » American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Day of death August 24, 1966
The temperature on August 24, 1966 was between 6.4 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
April 26 » A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
July 1 » The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
July 24 » Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
October 1 » West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with no survivors in Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
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