January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
Day of marriage March 21, 1924
The temperature on March 21, 1924 was between -2.3 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
March 16 » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
Day of death June 8, 1969
The temperature on June 8, 1969 was between 8.8 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 15.1 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
April 4 » Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
May 15 » People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by the University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot.
May 17 » Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
October 21 » The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
November 12 » Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
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