January 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
Day of marriage December 11, 1926
The temperature on December 11, 1926 was between 5.5 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
Day of death November 2, 1970
The temperature on November 2, 1970 was between 8.8 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 15.6 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 24 » China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
June 15 » Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
August 7 » California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
September 16 » King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict which became to be known as Black September.
October 5 » The British Trade Commissioner is kidnapped by members of the FLQ, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
October 16 » Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
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