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.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
Day of marriage June 12, 1919
The temperature on June 12, 1919 was between 10.6 °C and 31.3 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
May 1 » German troops enter Munich to suppress the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
August 8 » The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 is signed. It establishes peaceful relations between Afghanistan and the UK, and confirms the Durand line as the mutual border. In return, the UK is no longer obligated to subsidize the Afghan government.
October 7 » KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
October 9 » The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
December 26 » Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.
Day of death February 21, 1964
The temperature on February 21, 1964 was between -9.0 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged -2.0 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (49%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 20 » Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
August 7 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
August 28 » The Philadelphia race riot begins.
October 1 » Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
October 14 » The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices.
October 16 » Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.
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