April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
July 8 » The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
August 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
Day of marriage October 5, 1921
The temperature on October 5, 1921 was between 8.8 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
February 21 » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
February 22 » After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Day of death March 9, 1975
The temperature on March 9, 1975 was between 6.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 9 » The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
June 4 » The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
June 25 » Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal.
June 26 » Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
July 31 » The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
November 25 » Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
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