February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
Day of death May 5, 1928
The temperature on May 5, 1928 was between 7.3 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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