March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
Day of marriage October 3, 1914
The temperature on October 3, 1914 was between 4.0 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
April 21 » Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
August 26 » World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
Day of death June 7, 1945
The temperature on June 7, 1945 was between 14.5 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
February 14 » World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
March 16 » Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in around 5,000 deaths.
March 17 » The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
April 16 » More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
April 25 » Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two.
November 1 » The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
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