February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Day of marriage June 1, 1922
The temperature on June 1, 1922 was between 11.2 °C and 26.7 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
April 20 » The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
June 16 » General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party wins a large majority.
October 18 » The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
October 29 » King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
November 1 » Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
November 26 » Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
Day of death October 1, 1969
The temperature on October 1, 1969 was between 4.8 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
April 5 » Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
May 17 » Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
August 10 » A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
November 12 » Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
November 15 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
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