January 1 » New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
Day of marriage April 2, 1924
The temperature on April 2, 1924 was between -1.2 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.
Day of death March 5, 1997
The temperature on March 5, 1997 was between 5.5 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 28 » An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
February 28 » GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
May 15 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
May 25 » A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
June 30 » The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to China.
July 1 » China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
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