Washington (state)

Historical eventAugust 201910

Washington (state)

Hurricane-force winds combined hundreds of small fires in the U.S. states of Washington and Idaho into the Devil's Broom fire, which burned about 4,700 square miles (12,100 km²), the largest fire in recorded U.S. history.

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When
Saturday, August 20 1910116 years ago
Category
Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
Era
20th century · 1910s
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Russia, Greece and some other countries used the Julian calendar into the early 20th century, so local records may show a date up to 13 days earlier.

At a glance

Dates: From 1910.

What happened

Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is often referred to as Washington state to distinguish it from the national capital; both are named after George Washington, a U.S. Founding Father and the first U.S. president. Washington borders the Pacific Ocean to the west, Oregon to the south, and Idaho to the east; it shares an international border with the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north. Olympia is the state capital,

August 20 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

  1. 1910Washington (state)
  2. 2002Saddam Hussein
  3. 2006Sri Lankan civil war
  4. 2007China Airlines Flight 120
  5. 2008Spanair Flight 5022
  6. 2011First Air Flight 6560
  7. 20122012 Yare prison riot
  8. 2014Hiroshima Prefecture
  9. 2016August 2016 Gaziantep bombing
  10. 2018Silent Sam
  11. 2020Joe Biden

Also in 1910

  • May 11Glacier National Park (U.S.)Glacier National Park was established in the U.S. state of Montana.
  • September 12Gustav MahlerGustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Sym…
  • March 31Federation of Stoke-on-TrentSix English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type.
  • December 3Freda Du FaurFreda Du Faur became the first woman to climb Aoraki / Mount Cook, the highest peak in New Zealand.
  • July 24Ottoman EmpireOttoman forces captured the city of Shkodër, ending the Albanian revolt of 1910 (depicted).
  • November 14Eugene Burton ElyAviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton R…
  • October 21HMS Niobe (1897)HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • April 29Parliament of the United KingdomParliament passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the express intent of redistributing wealth.

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When did Washington (state) happen?

August 20 1910 — 116 years ago, on a Saturday.

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