July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
Day of marriage April 26, 1928
The temperature on April 26, 1928 was between 9.9 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
Day of death January 19, 1991
The temperature on January 19, 1991 was between -2.7 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 2 » Sharon Pratt Kelly becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia.
May 21 » Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
August 21 » Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
September 17 » Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
November 18 » After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
December 31 » All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
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