February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
April 15 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
Day of marriage September 30, 1927
The temperature on September 30, 1927 was between 7.6 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
Day of death October 4, 1967
The temperature on October 4, 1967 was between 9.2 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 13.5 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 4 » Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
March 6 » Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
April 14 » Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
August 25 » George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, is assassinated by a former member of his group.
October 21 » The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon.
November 29 » Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
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