March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of marriage July 26, 1928
The temperature on July 26, 1928 was between 15.0 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
Day of death December 11, 1942
The temperature on December 11, 1942 was between 3.4 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
July 23 » Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
August 13 » Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
August 17 » World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.
August 25 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
September 9 » World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
December 2 » World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
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