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.
January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
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 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
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.
December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
Day of marriage August 9, 1921
The temperature on August 9, 1921 was between 7.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
March 31 » The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
Day of death December 15, 1975
The average temperature on December 15, 1975 was -4.5 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
March 22 » A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
June 1 » The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others.
July 27 » Mayor of Jaffna and former MP Alfred Duraiappah is shot dead.
August 15 » Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
September 16 » The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
October 16 » Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
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