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.
February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
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 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
Day of marriage August 28, 1913
The temperature on August 28, 1913 was between 12.5 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 2 » Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
July 4 » President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
October 9 » The steamship SSVolturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
October 10 » U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
December 1 » Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
Day of death September 24, 1971
The temperature on September 24, 1971 was between 10.7 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 25 » The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
May 27 » The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
September 8 » In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
September 15 » The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island.
October 29 » In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
December 6 » Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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