January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
Day of marriage August 12, 1921
The temperature on August 12, 1921 was between 9.6 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 20 » The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
Day of death November 14, 1970
The temperature on November 14, 1970 was between 2.4 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
March 2 » Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
March 26 » South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
April 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
May 11 » The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250million in damage.
September 4 » Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
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