May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
Day of marriage May 25, 1928
The temperature on May 25, 1928 was between 4.5 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
Day of death August 9, 1935
The temperature on August 9, 1935 was between 15.3 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
June 12 » A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.
July 24 » The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee.
November 9 » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
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