February 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
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 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
December 2 » Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
Day of marriage December 24, 1926
The temperature on December 24, 1926 was between -3.5 °C and 0.9 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
Day of death November 12, 1973
The temperature on November 12, 1973 was between 1.6 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
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 23 » United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
April 10 » Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people.
November 4 » The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
November 17 » Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
December 1 » Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.
December 21 » The Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opens.
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