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- 1720
- France takes over Mauritius and renames it Isle de France.
- 1847
- The Edinburgh and Northern Railway opens to the public.
- 1870
- The Kingdom of Italy takes control of Rome, the last major stronghold of the Papal States.
- 1916
- The Russian Empire officially claims the Arctic Islands in the north of Russia.
- 1964
- The first aircraft lands at the Courtenay Airpark in British Columbia.
- 2022
- A Krispy Kreme store opens on Staten Island in New York.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on September 20, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on September 20 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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