In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
June 6 » The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Day of death October 21, 1990
The temperature on October 21, 1990 was between 5.6 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 29 » The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
March 31 » Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
April 9 » Thirteen thousand members of the Dene and Métis tribes sign a land claim agreement for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000sqmi) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic.
May 17 » The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
September 2 » Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
November 16 » Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
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