July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of marriage May 8, 1947
The temperature on May 8, 1947 was between 10.6 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
May 1 » Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
July 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
October 30 » The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is founded.
November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
Day of death February 9, 1980
The temperature on February 9, 1980 was between 5.8 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 23 » Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
April 7 » During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
August 26 » After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI inadvertently detonates the bomb during its disarming.
September 5 » The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.
September 17 » After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
October 10 » The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
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