April 6 » At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
May 18 » Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced.
June 20 » Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
August 16 » Battle of Plymouth: Inconclusive naval action between the fleets of Michiel de Ruyter and George Ayscue in the First Anglo-Dutch War.
September 7 » Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
December 10 » Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.
Christening day October 28, 1967
The temperature on October 28, 1967 was between 7.5 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 11.5 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
April 14 » Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
April 24 » Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
July 24 » During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"); the statement angered the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians.
November 7 » US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
November 14 » American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
Day of burial January 23, 1742
The temperature on January 23, 1742 was about -1 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
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