January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
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.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
Christening day July 1, 1900
The temperature on July 1, 1900 was about 15.1 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
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.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
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.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Day of death July 16, 1976
The temperature on July 16, 1976 was between 16.7 °C and 30.7 °C and averaged 24.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
March 9 » Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
March 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day.
April 2 » Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
May 21 » Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California.
July 10 » Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
December 25 » EgyptAir Flight 664, a Boeing 707-366C, crashes on approach to Don Mueang International Airport, killing 71 people.
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