January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
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 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
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 23 » USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by naval forces of North Korea.
April 6 » Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
July 18 » Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
October 1 » Guyana nationalizes the British Guiana Broadcasting Service, which would eventually become part of the National Communications Network, Guyana.
November 22 » The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).
December 31 » The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.
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
April 11 » President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
June 5 » Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
July 1 » Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
July 26 » Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
November 11 » Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
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