February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
Day of marriage May 16, 1919
The temperature on May 16, 1919 was between 7.6 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
January 15 » Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
May 1 » German troops enter Munich to suppress the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
May 16 » A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
May 19 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
June 23 » Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
October 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
Day of death May 14, 1958
The temperature on May 14, 1958 was between 8.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 5 » Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
April 13 » American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
May 22 » The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
May 24 » United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
November 28 » Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
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