February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
Day of death May 1, 1968
The temperature on May 1, 1968 was between 6.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
January 31 » Nauru gains independence from Australia.
June 9 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
July 23 » Glenville shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
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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