In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 15 » James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
March 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
November 8 » The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
December 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.
Day of marriage May 23, 1917
The temperature on May 23, 1917 was between 9.3 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
January 31 » World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
March 2 » The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
March 8 » International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
April 12 » World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
Day of death March 11, 1986
The temperature on March 11, 1986 was between -2.4 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 20 » The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
April 29 » A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
April 29 » Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
May 3 » Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
August 6 » A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
November 26 » The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
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