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.
May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
September 19 » In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
Day of marriage March 30, 1910
The temperature on March 30, 1910 was between -0.2 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
October 14 » English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
November 21 » Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).
Day of death December 17, 1947
The temperature on December 17, 1947 was between 3.0 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 25 » The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.
April 6 » The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
April 30 » In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
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