January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
Day of marriage August 25, 1921
The temperature on August 25, 1921 was between 13.4 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
February 12 » Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
March 31 » The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
May 3 » The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
October 29 » The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
Day of death May 7, 1991
The temperature on May 7, 1991 was between 6.0 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 16 » Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
April 10 » A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
April 29 » A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
July 10 » Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
August 6 » Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
August 6 » Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
Day of burial May 11, 1991
The temperature on May 11, 1991 was between 2.1 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 13 » Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others.
January 17 » Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning as aircraft strike positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the F-117. LCDR Scott Speicher's F/A-18C Hornet from VFA-81 is shot down by a Mig-25 and is the first American casualty of the War. Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
February 18 » The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
August 21 » Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
September 17 » The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
October 8 » Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia.
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