In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
Day of marriage June 12, 1920
The temperature on June 12, 1920 was between 11.2 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (76%). 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.
January 7 » The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
March 14 » In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
May 3 » A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
October 14 » Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.
November 12 » Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
November 15 » The Free City of Danzig is established.
Day of death October 28, 1960
The temperature on October 28, 1960 was between 5.9 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
April 19 » Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
May 27 » In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
June 30 » Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
December 13 » While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
Day of burial November 2, 1960
The temperature on November 2, 1960 was between 8.3 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
May 23 » A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
June 23 » The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
August 1 » Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
September 26 » In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
November 3 » The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
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