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.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
November 21 » Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.
December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
Day of death August 19, 1955
The temperature on August 19, 1955 was between 15.3 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
May 25 » First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: A British expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reaches the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day.
July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
September 16 » A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
October 26 » Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
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