January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of marriage May 12, 1927
The temperature on May 12, 1927 was between 1.8 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
March 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
Day of death January 5, 1991
The temperature on January 5, 1991 was between 2.7 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 7 » Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
April 14 » The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
August 20 » Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood.
August 29 » Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
September 19 » Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria.
October 16 » George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.
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