February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
Christening day October 14, 1900
The temperature on October 14, 1900 was about 4.5 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
Day of death February 8, 1927
The temperature on February 8, 1927 was between -3.9 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -1.6 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
Day of burial February 15, 1927
The temperature on February 15, 1927 was between -1.0 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
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