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.
January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
Day of marriage May 4, 1906
The temperature on May 4, 1906 was between 8.2 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
December 10 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
December 24 » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
Day of death May 12, 1926
The temperature on May 12, 1926 was between 8.1 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
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