January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
Day of marriage November 8, 1919
The temperature on November 8, 1919 was between -1.2 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
January 16 » Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
May 29 » Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
July 6 » The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
September 10 » Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
October 2 » U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him incapacitated for several weeks.
October 16 » Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
Day of death February 6, 1941
The temperature on February 6, 1941 was between -10.5 °C and -4.5 °C and averaged -6.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
July 31 » The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
September 3 » The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
September 29 » World War II: German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
November 7 » World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
December 15 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv.
December 20 » World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.
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