In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
January 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
June 7 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
Day of marriage May 17, 1907
The temperature on May 17, 1907 was between 2.9 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
May 28 » The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
November 16 » Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
December 17 » Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan.
Day of death December 11, 1950
The temperature on December 11, 1950 was between 1.7 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 5 » In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
May 19 » Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
May 29 » The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
June 1 » The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.
June 27 » The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
November 17 » Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.
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