February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
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.
March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
Day of marriage September 3, 1926
The temperature on September 3, 1926 was between 16.2 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
Day of death June 19, 1979
The temperature on June 19, 1979 was between 8.8 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 7 » Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
January 16 » The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
April 2 » A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
June 4 » Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
December 27 » The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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