February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
Day of marriage April 8, 1926
The temperature on April 8, 1926 was between 6.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Day of death September 23, 1975
The temperature on September 23, 1975 was between 8.8 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
April 29 » Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
June 5 » The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).
September 16 » Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
November 14 » With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain abandons Western Sahara.
December 6 » The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.
December 29 » A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
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