January 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
Day of marriage September 16, 1926
The temperature on September 16, 1926 was between 7.7 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
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 May 7, 1993
The temperature on May 7, 1993 was between 7.3 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
March 29 » Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
April 19 » The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
October 7 » The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
November 9 » Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.
December 30 » Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland.
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