March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
April 15 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Day of marriage May 19, 1926
The temperature on May 19, 1926 was between 1.0 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
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