May 8 » The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
July 1 » Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
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 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
October 1 » The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
Day of marriage March 20, 1926
The temperature on March 20, 1926 was between -1 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death January 14, 1965
The temperature on January 14, 1965 was between 3.1 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 8 » Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
March 23 » NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
August 4 » The Constitution of the Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
October 15 » Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
November 24 » Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
December 16 » Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966.
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