February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
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 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
September 11 » After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
Day of marriage August 8, 1921
The temperature on August 8, 1921 was between 13.0 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
March 1 » The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
March 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.
Day of death June 11, 1966
The temperature on June 11, 1966 was between 17.0 °C and 26.5 °C and averaged 21.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
March 17 » Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSVAlvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
August 18 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
October 9 » Vietnam War: South Korean troops commit the Binh Tai Massacre.
October 21 » A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
November 15 » Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
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