January 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
January 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
Day of marriage April 29, 1926
The temperature on April 29, 1926 was between 8.9 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death June 3, 1985
The temperature on June 3, 1985 was between 9.9 °C and 27.4 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 14.5 hours of sunshine (88%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
March 4 » The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
December 20 » Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.
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