January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of marriage May 14, 1926
The temperature on May 14, 1926 was between 3.9 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death December 28, 1991
The temperature on December 28, 1991 was between 5.0 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (41%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 16 » The airplane carrying eight members of Reba McEntire's touring band crashed on the side of Otay Mountain.
May 18 » Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
June 10 » Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.
September 1 » Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
October 11 » Prof. Anita Hill delivers her televised testimony concerning sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination.
December 8 » The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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