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.
February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
October 13 » Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
Day of marriage June 2, 1923
The temperature on June 2, 1923 was between 7.2 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
July 1 » The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
September 1 » The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
September 12 » Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
October 6 » The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
November 8 » Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
Day of death July 15, 1958
The temperature on July 15, 1958 was between 8.3 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
February 5 » A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
March 1 » Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.
March 16 » The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
December 1 » The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
December 11 » French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
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