January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of marriage June 14, 1934
The temperature on June 14, 1934 was between 5.2 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
February 9 » The Balkan Entente is formed.
May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
October 9 » An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
Day of death March 17, 1991
The temperature on March 17, 1991 was between 3.6 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
April 4 » Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
July 10 » Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
September 21 » Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.
September 28 » The Strategic Air Command stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under START I, as well as its strategic bomber force.
October 11 » Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.
November 7 » Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive and retires from the NBA.
Day of burial March 20, 1991
The temperature on March 20, 1991 was between 8.7 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
May 18 » Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
June 12 » Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa.
June 25 » Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence by referendum from Yugoslavia.
August 31 » Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
November 14 » American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
December 31 » All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
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