February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
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 January 27, 1925
The temperature on January 27, 1925 was between -2.1 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
January 5 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
January 30 » The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.
February 2 » Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
April 10 » The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
April 18 » The International Amateur Radio Union is formed in Paris.
May 15 » Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.
Day of death September 6, 1955
The temperature on September 6, 1955 was between 11.5 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
September 16 » A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
November 1 » The Vietnam War begins.
November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
December 5 » E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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