January 23 » The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President.
June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
July 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
Day of marriage March 16, 1928
The temperature on March 16, 1928 was between -2.4 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
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.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
Day of death March 22, 1970
The temperature on March 22, 1970 was between 1.2 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 1 » The first of over 670,000 AMC Gremlins are released into North America to compete with foreign imported cars.
May 31 » The 7.9 Mw Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794–70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
July 23 » Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
September 8 » Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, killing all 11 aboard.
November 9 » Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
December 17 » Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
Day of burial March 26, 1970
The temperature on March 26, 1970 was between -3.9 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 31 » Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
September 4 » Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
October 12 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
November 14 » Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
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