January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of marriage December 1, 1921
The temperature on December 1, 1921 was between -4.9 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. The average windspeed was 4 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.
February 12 » Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
February 21 » Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
Day of death November 11, 1968
The temperature on November 11, 1968 was between 0.4 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
February 24 » Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
April 4 » A.E.K. Athens B.C. becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
May 12 » Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
October 26 » Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
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