February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
Day of marriage June 28, 1927
The temperature on June 28, 1927 was between 7.1 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
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.
September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
Day of death November 1, 1970
The temperature on November 1, 1970 was between 9.7 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 10 » Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
April 1 » President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.
April 29 » Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
July 21 » After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
August 24 » Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
December 15 » Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
Day of burial November 3, 1970
The temperature on November 3, 1970 was between 11.1 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 17.6 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 17 » Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
May 11 » The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250million in damage.
September 7 » Fighting begins between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Jordan.
September 16 » King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict which became to be known as Black September.
November 4 » Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
November 25 » In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
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