January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
September 11 » After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
Day of marriage December 15, 1916
The temperature on December 15, 1916 was between 0.7 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
March 9 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
July 22 » Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
August 25 » The United States National Park Service is created.
August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
August 29 » The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
Day of death December 22, 1976
The average temperature on December 22, 1976 was 2.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
April 2 » Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
May 21 » Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California.
June 5 » The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
July 10 » Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
July 21 » Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
August 7 » Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
Day of burial December 27, 1976
The temperature on December 27, 1976 was between 0.4 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 27 » The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
April 13 » Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.
July 17 » The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.
August 7 » Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
September 17 » The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
September 19 » Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object, when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
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