January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
November 27 » At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
Day of marriage September 5, 1917
The temperature on September 5, 1917 was between 9.6 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
June 28 » World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
November 8 » The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
Day of death February 6, 1975
The temperature on February 6, 1975 was between -3.3 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
April 3 » Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
April 28 » General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.
August 14 » The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.
August 15 » Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
August 15 » Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
December 2 » Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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