January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.
Day of marriage April 19, 1928
The temperature on April 19, 1928 was between -0.3 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
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.
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
Day of death October 3, 1978
The temperature on October 3, 1978 was between 6.1 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 9 » The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
March 16 » Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
April 28 » President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
August 10 » Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
October 8 » Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
December 4 » Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.
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