February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
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.
June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of marriage December 8, 1926
The temperature on December 8, 1926 was between 2.9 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
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