January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.
Day of marriage November 6, 1931
The temperature on November 6, 1931 was between 7.6 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 21 » Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
March 26 » Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
October 17 » Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.
Day of death October 15, 1948
The temperature on October 15, 1948 was between 5.9 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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).
February 25 » In a coup d'état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Prague to end the Third Czechoslovak Republic.
May 28 » Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
June 26 » Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
June 26 » William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
September 18 » Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term.
December 22 » Sjafruddin Prawiranegara established the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia, PDRI) in West Sumatra.
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