January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of marriage December 28, 1927
The temperature on December 28, 1927 was between -5.4 °C and -0.4 °C and averaged -4.0 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
March 24 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
Day of death September 9, 1960
The temperature on September 9, 1960 was between 8.7 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
January 21 » A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435 miners.
January 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
January 25 » The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
August 9 » South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
August 19 » Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
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