February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
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.
July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
Day of marriage March 29, 1928
The temperature on March 29, 1928 was between -0.6 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
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