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.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
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.
October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
Day of marriage August 6, 1920
The temperature on August 6, 1920 was between 12.2 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
January 23 » The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
February 10 » Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
July 15 » The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
August 13 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
October 30 » The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
December 3 » Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
Day of death February 7, 1947
The temperature on February 7, 1947 was between -12.4 °C and -4.1 °C and averaged -8.3 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
July 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
November 17 » The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
November 18 » The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
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