January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
December 30 » Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
Day of marriage October 27, 1921
The temperature on October 27, 1921 was between 8.1 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (23%). 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.
January 20 » The British K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in the English Channel; all 56 on board die.
March 1 » The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
March 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
August 14 » Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
Day of death June 27, 1954
The temperature on June 27, 1954 was between 10.1 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 8 » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
July 21 » First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
November 7 » In the US, Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.
December 2 » The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
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