January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
April 3 » The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
Day of marriage October 21, 1915
The temperature on October 21, 1915 was between 2.8 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
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.
May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
Day of death October 23, 1966
The temperature on October 23, 1966 was between 7.8 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 10.3 mm of rain during 8.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
May 21 » The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
June 8 » The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.
June 13 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
July 18 » A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
August 29 » The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
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