April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.
Day of marriage February 3, 1921
The temperature on February 3, 1921 was between -1.5 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
June 12 » Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
June 20 » Workers of Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month strike.
August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
Day of death December 3, 1954
The temperature on December 3, 1954 was between 7.8 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
July 21 » First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
November 1 » The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
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