January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
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.
April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
Day of marriage June 19, 1927
The temperature on June 19, 1927 was between 11.5 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
Day of death December 13, 1969
The temperature on December 13, 1969 was between -0.8 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
March 17 » Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
May 13 » May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
July 19 » Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
October 1 » Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
November 17 » Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
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