April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
Day of marriage April 17, 1924
The temperature on April 17, 1924 was between 0.2 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
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 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
November 27 » In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
Day of death July 1, 1953
The temperature on July 1, 1953 was between 16.4 °C and 27.7 °C and averaged 21.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
February 19 » Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
August 12 » The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
August 22 » The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
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