April 20 » U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
September 13 » Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
Day of marriage March 31, 1923
The temperature on March 31, 1923 was between 0.7 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 9 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
August 18 » First British Track and Field championships for women, London.
September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
September 26 » The German government accepts the occupation of the Ruhr.
October 31 » The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
Day of death June 23, 1956
The temperature on June 23, 1956 was between 10.2 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.
April 26 » SSIdeal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
May 1 » The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
July 25 » Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SSAndrea Doria collides with the MSStockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
October 28 » Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV.
November 12 » Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
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