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 6 » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
March 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
Day of marriage September 18, 1915
The temperature on September 18, 1915 was between 7.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
Day of death February 20, 1971
The temperature on February 20, 1971 was between -3.6 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
February 9 » Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
March 7 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
May 1 » Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
October 27 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
November 30 » Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.
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