January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
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.
Day of marriage May 6, 1938
The temperature on May 6, 1938 was between 5.2 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
October 31 » Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
Day of death November 8, 1967
The temperature on November 8, 1967 was between -2.6 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
January 23 » Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
March 9 » Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26 people.
July 1 » Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
September 1 » Six-Day War: The Khartoum Resolution is issued at the Arab Summit, and eight countries adopt the "three 'no's against Israel".
September 15 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
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