March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.
Day of marriage July 27, 1928
The temperature on July 27, 1928 was between 13.3 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
Day of death June 24, 1968
The temperature on June 24, 1968 was between 10.6 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
February 1 » Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
April 3 » Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
April 4 » Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
July 1 » Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
August 28 » The police rioted during the Democratic National Convention, beating up anti-war protesters, peaceful demonstrators, innocent bystanders, and members of the press.
Day of burial June 28, 1968
The temperature on June 28, 1968 was between 11.1 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 12.1 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
February 1 » The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
April 10 » The TEV Wahine, a New Zealand ferry sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died.
July 1 » The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
July 17 » Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
December 9 » Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
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