In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
Day of marriage November 22, 1912
The temperature on November 22, 1912 was between 3.0 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Day of death February 18, 1958
The temperature on February 18, 1958 was between -0.8 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
March 31 » In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
September 14 » The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
November 25 » French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
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