February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
July 4 » En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
August 13 » Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
Day of marriage January 30, 1918
The temperature on January 30, 1918 was between -2.6 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
February 21 » The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
June 8 » A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
June 24 » First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
August 30 » Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
December 1 » Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
Day of death October 14, 1971
The average temperature on October 14, 1971 was 6.2 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 3 » New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
May 1 » Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
May 27 » Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
August 9 » The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
December 2 » Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
December 20 » The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
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