January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
Day of marriage March 31, 1921
The temperature on March 31, 1921 was between 5.0 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (11%). 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.
January 9 » Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
March 1 » Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion began, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
March 6 » Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
July 10 » Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
October 13 » Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
November 4 » The Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) of the Nazi Party is renamed the Sturmabteilung (storm detachment) after a large riot in Munich.
Day of death January 1, 1966
The temperature on January 1, 1966 was between 6.7 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain during 8.8 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
March 4 » In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
March 31 » The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
May 6 » Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
June 30 » The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
August 18 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
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