January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of death January 23, 1976
The temperature on January 23, 1976 was between 0.8 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 21 » Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
February 27 » The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
May 7 » The Honda Accord is officially launched.
July 29 » In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
September 3 » Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
September 19 » Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object, when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
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