May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
Day of marriage February 24, 1921
The temperature on February 24, 1921 was between -3.6 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
Day of death January 5, 1967
The temperature on January 5, 1967 was between -3.4 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 23 » Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
May 20 » The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
May 24 » Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
June 4 » Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
June 17 » Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
October 9 » A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
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