January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
Day of marriage August 27, 1930
The temperature on August 27, 1930 was between 15.0 °C and 32.0 °C and averaged 23.5 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 26 » The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
January 31 » 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
March 29 » Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
May 7 » The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
August 16 » The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
September 27 » Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.
Day of death September 13, 1981
The temperature on September 13, 1981 was between 11.0 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
January 19 » Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
March 1 » Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
April 11 » A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
May 21 » Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate.
August 12 » The IBM Personal Computer is released.
August 30 » President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
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