January 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
January 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
Day of marriage September 22, 1927
The temperature on September 22, 1927 was between 11.2 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
Day of death April 16, 1968
The temperature on April 16, 1968 was between 6.9 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 17 » In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
April 6 » In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
April 20 » English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
July 18 » Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
August 21 » James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
December 21 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
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