May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
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 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
Day of marriage June 1, 1927
The temperature on June 1, 1927 was between 12.7 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 27.8 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
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.
June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
Day of death September 23, 1969
The temperature on September 23, 1969 was between 4.1 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 17 » Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
June 22 » The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
October 17 » The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
November 10 » National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
November 21 » The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
December 1 » Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
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