February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
Day of marriage September 16, 1936
The temperature on September 16, 1936 was between 10.4 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 10 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
May 28 » Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
June 11 » The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
August 24 » The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
Day of death August 7, 1978
The temperature on August 7, 1978 was between 11.3 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 17 » The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
March 16 » A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73.
April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
June 21 » The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
November 14 » France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests.
December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.
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