June 11 » The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
Day of marriage September 12, 1931
The temperature on September 12, 1931 was between 2.4 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
March 5 » The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
December 9 » The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
Day of death July 21, 1970
The temperature on July 21, 1970 was between 9.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The 7.1 Mw Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 15,000 people are known to have been killed and about another 26,000 are injured.
March 4 » French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
May 15 » President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army generals.
September 1 » Palestinian guerrillas attack the motorcade of King Hussein of Jordan in a failed assassination attempt.
September 28 » Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
November 12 » The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
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