January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
Day of marriage April 23, 1929
The temperature on April 23, 1929 was between -1.5 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
Day of death February 16, 1964
The temperature on February 16, 1964 was between -1.5 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 1 » The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
January 28 » An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
March 6 » Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
April 7 » A bulldozer kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking a riot.
November 21 » Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.
December 22 » The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) takes place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, United States.
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