February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
December 10 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
Day of marriage August 3, 1921
The temperature on August 3, 1921 was between 11.2 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
April 2 » The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
May 8 » The creation of the Communist Party of Romania.
June 30 » U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
September 7 » The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
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