January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of marriage July 22, 1918
The temperature on July 22, 1918 was between 12.9 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 25 » The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.
June 22 » The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
September 15 » World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
October 1 » Sayid Abdullah becomes the last Khan of Khiva.
October 30 » World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
December 4 » U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
Day of death February 7, 1980
The temperature on February 7, 1980 was between 3.3 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
April 9 » The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
June 3 » The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, causing five deaths and $300million (equivalent to $931million in 2019) worth of damage.
August 1 » Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
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.
October 25 » Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.
November 21 » A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
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