January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage April 6, 1940
The temperature on April 6, 1940 was between 1.7 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
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.
June 3 » World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat.
June 11 » World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.
June 21 » World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
July 3 » World War II: The Royal Navy attacks the French naval squadron in Algeria, to ensure that it will not fall under German control. Of the four French battleships present, one is sunk, two are damaged, and one escapes back to France.
October 31 » World War II: The Battle of Britain ends: The United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion.
November 16 » The Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
Day of death July 15, 1981
The temperature on July 15, 1981 was between 13.2 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
January 20 » Ronald Reagan is inaugurated the 40th President of the United States of America. Twenty minutes later, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
March 11 » Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement.
March 27 » The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
August 22 » Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board are killed.
September 18 » The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
December 14 » Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights.
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