February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of death May 4, 1967
The temperature on May 4, 1967 was between 2.3 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
June 5 » The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
June 7 » Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
June 10 » The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
August 14 » UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
October 26 » Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran.
November 17 » Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
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