January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
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 May 5, 1928
The temperature on May 5, 1928 was between 7.1 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
Day of death May 4, 1944
The temperature on May 4, 1944 was between 3.8 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
March 10 » Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
April 16 » World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
August 20 » World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
August 23 » World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
September 11 » World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
October 19 » United States forces land in the Philippines.
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