January 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
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.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of marriage April 7, 1959
The temperature on April 7, 1959 was between 2.5 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 29 » The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden.
February 20 » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
June 30 » A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
September 16 » The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
September 25 » Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
Day of death February 28, 1988
The temperature on February 28, 1988 was between 0.5 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 13 » Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
February 5 » Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
March 17 » Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
September 18 » The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
November 8 » U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.
December 9 » The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.
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