February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
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.
Day of marriage December 31, 1924
The temperature on December 31, 1924 was between 2.0 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
April 8 » Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
Day of death August 11, 1999
The temperature on August 11, 1999 was between 9.5 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
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