January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
Day of death April 28, 1996
The temperature on April 28, 1996 was between 5.9 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
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January 17 » The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
January 25 » Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the U.S.A.
March 18 » A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
July 5 » Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
November 5 » Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
November 18 » A fire occurs on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600ft) of tunnel.
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