January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
Day of marriage February 23, 1922
The temperature on February 23, 1922 was between 5.5 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 28 » Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
February 6 » The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
June 29 » France grants 1km at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
August 2 » A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China, killing more than 50,000 people.
November 1 » Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
November 4 » In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Day of death February 24, 1967
The temperature on February 24, 1967 was between 1.4 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
April 21 » A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
May 8 » The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
June 10 » The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
September 1 » The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia.
October 21 » The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon.
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