Census in the year 1891, 6 males and 3 females at address, under the name "Charles Newton Jnr", Bowan Park, NS, AU.
(Anecdote) between 1880 and 1968 in The life of George Newton.
(Military Enlistment) on May 4, 1901 in Service No. 2712, Trooper, 3rd NSW Imperial Bushmens Contingent, unit formed, Klerkendorp, Transvaal, South Africa.
(Milit-History) on July 12, 1902 in Embarked, Durban, South Africa.
(Military Discharge) on August 11, 1902 in Disembarked, Sydney, NSW, AU.
(Milit-History) between 1914 and 1916.
(Military Enlistment) on October 17, 1914 in enlisted, Trooper Regimental No. 183, 7th Light Horse Regiment, confirmed at Rose Hill Sydney on 20-Oct-1914.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
June 7 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.
Day of death July 8, 1968
The temperature on July 8, 1968 was between 13.3 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
October 20 » Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
November 17 » British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
December 27 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.
Day of burial July 10, 1968
The temperature on July 10, 1968 was between 12.2 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 20.2 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
March 7 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
July 1 » The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
August 21 » James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
October 14 » Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
October 26 » Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.
December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
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