February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Day of marriage May 8, 1935
The temperature on May 8, 1935 was between 6.7 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
February 2 » Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
July 1 » Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
Day of death October 20, 1987
The temperature on October 20, 1987 was between 9.4 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 22 » Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
February 6 » Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
February 23 » Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
May 8 » The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
July 4 » In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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