June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage January 11, 1924
The temperature on January 11, 1924 was between 1.0 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.
Day of death December 26, 1985
The temperature on December 26, 1985 was between 0.4 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 35.9 mm of rain during 16.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 21 » Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashes near Reno–Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, killing 70 people.
May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
October 29 » Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
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