January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
Day of marriage July 7, 1921
The temperature on July 7, 1921 was between 11.2 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
November 4 » The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large riot in Munich.
November 14 » The Communist Party of Spain is founded, and issues the first edition of Mundo obrero.
December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
Day of death April 23, 1945
The temperature on April 23, 1945 was between 4.3 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. Source: KNMI
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.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
February 9 » World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMSVenturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
March 19 » World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
April 13 » World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
August 18 » Sukarno takes office as the first president of Indonesia, following the country's declaration of independence the previous day.
October 10 » The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China.
December 4 » By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
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