In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
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.
May 16 » The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
August 18 » Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.
October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.
Day of marriage May 18, 1915
The temperature on May 18, 1915 was between 8.1 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 9.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
Day of death June 2, 1966
The temperature on June 2, 1966 was between 4.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
May 26 » British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
July 8 » King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
September 6 » Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
October 9 » Vietnam War: South Korean troops commit the Binh Tai Massacre.
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