January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
Day of death August 17, 1968
The temperature on August 17, 1968 was between 10.2 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 4 » A.E.K. Athens B.C. becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
April 4 » Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
April 29 » The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
June 30 » Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
September 2 » Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War.
November 22 » The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).
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