UK, Royal Air Force Airmen Records, 1918-1940, Ancestry.com, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey, England; Kew, Surrey, England; Air Ministry: Air Member for Personnel and Predecessors: Airmen's Records; Series Number: AIR 79 / Ancestry.com
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.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
April 15 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
Day of marriage October 15, 1927
The temperature on October 15, 1927 was between 2.6 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
May 4 » The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
Day of death April 3, 1969
The temperature on April 3, 1969 was between -0.6 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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