February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
Day of marriage May 24, 1930
The temperature on May 24, 1930 was between 8.7 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 29 » Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
April 2 » After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
September 8 » 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
October 3 » The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded.
October 5 » British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
Day of death May 20, 1974
The temperature on May 20, 1974 was between 8.7 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 19 » China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam
February 4 » M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
March 4 » People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
July 30 » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
September 8 » Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
September 18 » Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
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