April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
May 26 » The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.
August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
Day of marriage February 24, 1921
The temperature on February 24, 1921 was between -3.6 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
March 31 » The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.
December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
Day of death September 30, 1996
The temperature on September 30, 1996 was between 9.6 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 10.6 mm of rain during 8.5 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
May 10 » A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.
September 27 » Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.
October 16 » Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
December 22 » Airborne Express Flight 827 crashes near Narrows, Virginia, killing all six people on board.
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