January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
Day of marriage June 8, 1923
The temperature on June 8, 1923 was between 6.1 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
April 15 » Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
April 28 » Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
June 9 » Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
August 23 » Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
October 31 » The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
Day of death January 19, 1980
The temperature on January 19, 1980 was between -7.3 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 26 » Egypt–Israel relations are formally established.
January 27 » Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
April 18 » The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.
May 13 » An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
May 20 » In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
July 30 » Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
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