February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.
Day of marriage June 22, 1921
The temperature on June 22, 1921 was between 7.9 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
November 4 » Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
Day of death December 19, 1954
The temperature on December 19, 1954 was between 4.0 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
July 15 » First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
November 19 » Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
November 27 » Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
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