January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
Day of marriage May 7, 1923
The temperature on May 7, 1923 was between 10.1 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 9 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
January 11 » Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
June 9 » Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
July 24 » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
September 29 » The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.
October 6 » The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
Day of death February 1, 1975
The temperature on February 1, 1975 was between 3.9 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
February 21 » Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
March 22 » A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
April 8 » Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
May 27 » Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
October 16 » Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
December 29 » A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
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