February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
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.
June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
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.
August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
Day of marriage August 9, 1921
The temperature on August 9, 1921 was between 6.3 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °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.
February 22 » After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
February 25 » Georgian capital Tbilisi falls to the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting and the Russians declare the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.
March 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
March 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
Day of death April 21, 1968
The temperature on April 21, 1968 was between 10.0 °C and 27.8 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
January 23 » USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by naval forces of North Korea.
February 16 » In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
March 7 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
March 28 » Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.
October 16 » Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
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