January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of marriage June 21, 1924
The temperature on June 21, 1924 was between 10.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
Day of death April 3, 1966
The temperature on April 3, 1966 was between 5.7 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
May 26 » British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
May 30 » Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
June 8 » The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.
August 26 » The South African Border War starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
September 16 » The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
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