February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
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 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
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 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
February 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
Day of death May 4, 1980
The temperature on May 4, 1980 was between 3.2 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 27 » Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
February 26 » Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
March 27 » The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
August 14 » Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
October 17 » As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
October 26 » The Peter Muhlenberg Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated.
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