Person report

★31 Jan 1900
Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series of major disturbances in North Borneo, was shot dead in Tambunan, but his followers did not give up for five more years.

★15 Dec 1906
The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway long deep-level underground tube railway connecting Hammersmith and Finsbury Park, London, opened.

★10 Dec 1909
Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

★02 Sep 1912
Arthur Rose Eldred became the first person to be attain the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.

★22 Sep 1914
First World War: The German submarine U-9 sank three Royal Navy cruisers, resulting in approximately 1,450 deaths.

★24 Mar 1922
Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, two men wearing police uniforms broke into a house and murdered a Catholic family in reprisal for the deaths of two policemen the day before.

★09 Mar 1932
Éamon de Valera, one of the dominant political figures in twentieth-century Ireland, became President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.

★09 Apr 1940
During the German invasion of Norway, Vidkun Quisling seized control of the government in a Nazi-backed coup d'état.

★17 Mar 1950
The synthesis of californium, a radioactive transuranium element, was announced.

★02 Nov 1963
President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh.

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