April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
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 death May 17, 1980
The temperature on May 17, 1980 was between 6.4 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
January 29 » The Rubik's Cube makes its international debut at the Ideal Toy Corp. in Earl's Court, London.
February 2 » Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
February 29 » Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
March 31 » The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
April 3 » US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shvwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.
September 30 » Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
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