January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of marriage January 24, 1918
The temperature on January 24, 1918 was between 7.0 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
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.
January 28 » Finnish Civil War: The Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki; members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
April 23 » World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
April 24 » World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
September 15 » World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
September 29 » World War I: Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica.
November 26 » The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
Day of death November 22, 1953
The temperature on November 22, 1953 was between 5.6 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
February 19 » Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
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