January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.
Day of death January 12, 1968
The temperature on January 12, 1968 was between -15.6 °C and -4.2 °C and averaged -8.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
April 4 » Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
July 18 » Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
September 13 » Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
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