January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of marriage November 15, 1924
The temperature on November 15, 1924 was between -4.7 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
Day of death August 5, 1969
The temperature on August 5, 1969 was between 19.0 °C and 29.1 °C and averaged 22.7 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 30 » The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
April 3 » Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
May 13 » May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
July 3 » Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
July 30 » Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
November 13 » Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
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