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 13 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
February 1 » Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
April 6 » Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
Day of marriage September 4, 1918
The temperature on September 4, 1918 was between 7.4 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
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.
June 22 » The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
July 12 » The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
August 2 » The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
September 29 » The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.
October 1 » Sayid Abdullah becomes the last Khan of Khiva.
October 11 » The 7.1 Mw San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico. The quake and resulting tsunami kill up to 116 people.
Day of death January 1, 1958
The temperature on January 1, 1958 was between 0.4 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 14.3 mm of rain during 17.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
July 9 » A 7.8 Mw strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525m (1,722ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
August 23 » Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
September 2 » United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
September 12 » Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
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