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.
June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
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 marriage November 18, 1915
The temperature on November 18, 1915 was between -2.4 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
Day of death March 15, 1944
The temperature on March 15, 1944 was between -0.3 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
January 29 » World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
April 26 » Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
June 26 » World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
August 25 » World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
October 5 » The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.
October 19 » A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.
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