January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
Day of marriage April 28, 1921
The temperature on April 28, 1921 was between 8.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
March 6 » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
March 31 » The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
July 11 » A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
November 11 » The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
December 22 » Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.
Day of death March 16, 1979
The temperature on March 16, 1979 was between 2.8 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
April 1 » Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
May 30 » Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
September 1 » The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000mi).
September 29 » The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is shot by soldiers from Western Sahara.
November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
November 16 » The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
Day of burial March 21, 1979
The temperature on March 21, 1979 was between 1.3 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 28 » The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election.
April 1 » Nickelodeon was launched in United States.
July 21 » Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
October 1 » The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
November 1 » In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara.
November 28 » Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
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