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.
February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
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.
July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Day of marriage January 21, 1948
The temperature on January 21, 1948 was between -0.4 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 1 » The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.
February 4 » Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
May 23 » Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
June 16 » Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
August 10 » Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
December 10 » The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
Day of death December 23, 1953
The temperature on December 23, 1953 was between 5.2 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
June 26 » Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
November 21 » The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
November 30 » Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
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