May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
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.
February 8 » The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
March 9 » Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
June 5 » A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
August 16 » Mass riots in Kolkata begin; more than 4,000 people would be killed in 72 hours.
December 20 » The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.
December 31 » President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
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.
March 2 » Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
April 1 » Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
April 15 » Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
July 6 » The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.
November 7 » East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
December 27 » The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street confrontations and stray shootings abruptly end in the country's capital, Bucharest.
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