January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
Day of marriage January 2, 1928
The temperature on January 2, 1928 was between -5.6 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -3.0 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
Day of death April 2, 1980
The temperature on April 2, 1980 was between 4.6 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 28 » Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
April 12 » Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
April 30 » Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.
May 17 » General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
September 17 » Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
September 30 » Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
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