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 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
June 22 » The Royal Navy battleship HMSCamperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMSVictoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
Day of marriage May 28, 1920
The temperature on May 28, 1920 was between 10.2 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
February 2 » The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
May 7 » Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
August 11 » The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
September 17 » The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.
October 30 » The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
Day of death March 30, 1960
The temperature on March 30, 1960 was between 5.0 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
April 19 » Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
April 21 » Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
May 1 » Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
May 9 » The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
June 20 » The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
October 4 » An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
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