In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
November 21 » Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.
Day of marriage July 17, 1926
The temperature on July 17, 1926 was between 11.4 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death October 29, 1971
The temperature on October 29, 1971 was between 3.7 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 26 » U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
May 26 » Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army slaughters at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
May 31 » In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
July 15 » The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
July 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
August 10 » The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
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