January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
Day of marriage October 25, 1918
The temperature on October 25, 1918 was between 0.6 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). 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.
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 5 » Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
July 17 » The RMSCarpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SMU-55; five lives are lost.
August 29 » World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
October 9 » The Finnish Parliament offers to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived Kingdom of Finland.
November 1 » Western Ukraine separates from Austria-Hungary.
November 11 » World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
Day of death January 9, 1940
The temperature on January 9, 1940 was between -9.4 °C and -3.3 °C and averaged -5.7 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 10 » The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
February 16 » World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMSCossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
June 12 » World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
June 17 » The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
August 20 » In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
October 21 » The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
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