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.
January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
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 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.
Day of marriage August 15, 1918
The temperature on August 15, 1918 was between 7.9 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 29 » Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
February 6 » British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament.
August 21 » World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
November 11 » Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
November 25 » Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
December 14 » The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs, the first where women were permitted to vote.
Day of death June 18, 1953
The temperature on June 18, 1953 was between 8.3 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
August 22 » The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
September 7 » Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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