January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
Day of marriage May 8, 1937
The temperature on May 8, 1937 was between 5.4 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 2 » The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
April 1 » The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
July 5 » Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
Day of death March 26, 1948
The temperature on March 26, 1948 was between -0.1 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 4 » Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom becoming an independent republic, named the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister.
April 1 » Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
June 7 » Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
June 20 » The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied Germany. The Soviet Military Administration in Germany responded by imposing the Berlin Blockade four days later.
July 8 » The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
July 26 » U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the military of the United States.
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