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.
March 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
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.
December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Day of death August 3, 1971
The temperature on August 3, 1971 was between 15.0 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 2 » Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
February 27 » Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.
March 1 » President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
May 1 » Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
May 30 » Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
October 21 » A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
Day of burial August 6, 1971
The temperature on August 6, 1971 was between 14.5 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
January 25 » Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
July 26 » Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.
November 10 » In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
December 4 » The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
December 4 » The PNS Ghazi, a submarine belonging to the Pakistan Navy, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971.
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