January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of marriage February 28, 1946
The temperature on February 28, 1946 was between -6.6 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
January 6 » The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
January 17 » The UN Security Council holds its first session.
February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
April 18 » The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
May 25 » The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
July 4 » The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
Day of death March 7, 1989
The temperature on March 7, 1989 was between 6.1 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 18.4 mm of rain during 9.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
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.
January 30 » The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
April 3 » The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield.
June 4 » Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
October 17 » The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
December 20 » The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.
December 28 » A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
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