January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
June 12 » New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
November 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
Day of marriage August 12, 1921
The temperature on August 12, 1921 was between 8.6 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
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 15 » Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
March 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
June 20 » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
November 11 » The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
Day of death October 3, 1967
The temperature on October 3, 1967 was between 8.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
May 1 » Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
June 8 » Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
September 11 » China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched an attack on Indian posts at Nathu La, Sikkim, India, which resulted a military clashes.
October 10 » The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
October 27 » Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
Day of burial October 7, 1967
The temperature on October 7, 1967 was between 13.6 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 26 » Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
April 4 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
June 4 » Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
June 5 » The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
June 17 » Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
July 1 » Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
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