In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
June 6 » The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Day of marriage August 18, 1917
The temperature on August 18, 1917 was between 12.1 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
March 8 » International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
March 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
August 30 » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.
Day of death March 18, 1961
The temperature on March 18, 1961 was between 3.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
March 30 » The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
April 8 » A large explosion on board the MVDara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
September 17 » The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
September 18 » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
October 1 » The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
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