February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
Day of marriage April 12, 1923
The temperature on April 12, 1923 was between 8.1 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
September 7 » The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.
September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
October 6 » The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
October 29 » Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
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