In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
March 2 » Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
May 6 » The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
June 28 » The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
September 13 » Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
Day of death May 2, 1911
The temperature on May 2, 1911 was between 5.5 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
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