February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
Day of marriage February 11, 1926
The temperature on February 11, 1926 was between -1.1 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
Day of death March 19, 1980
The temperature on March 19, 1980 was between -1.4 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 26 » Egypt–Israel relations are formally established.
March 27 » Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
July 30 » Vanuatu gains independence.
August 1 » Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
September 26 » At the Oktoberfest terror attack in Munich 13 people die and 211 are injured.
December 2 » Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.
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