April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
Day of marriage March 17, 1921
The temperature on March 17, 1921 was between 2.2 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
March 6 » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
March 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
July 11 » The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
July 23 » The Communist Party of China (CPC) is established at the founding National Congress.
October 29 » The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
Day of death September 6, 1959
The temperature on September 6, 1959 was between 11.6 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 22 » Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
April 9 » Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
May 16 » The Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time.
August 3 » Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
October 21 » President Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.
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