January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
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
January 13 » Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.
February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
March 17 » As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
May 26 » H-dagurinn in Iceland: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
July 26 » Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
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