January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
April 20 » U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
Day of marriage February 12, 1921
The temperature on February 12, 1921 was between -1.5 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
March 15 » Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
March 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
July 10 » Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
October 13 » Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
October 19 » The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.
Day of death March 9, 1966
The temperature on March 9, 1966 was between 5.4 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 8 » Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.
March 10 » Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
August 18 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
October 5 » A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
October 21 » A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
November 28 » Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
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