January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
Day of marriage May 31, 1928
The temperature on May 31, 1928 was between 10.5 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
Day of death October 24, 1994
The temperature on October 24, 1994 was between 8.1 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 5 » Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
March 23 » Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, killing 75.
June 20 » The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured.
July 8 » Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
August 23 » Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
October 21 » In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
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