March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
Day of marriage May 27, 1926
The temperature on May 27, 1926 was between 10.2 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
Day of death October 23, 1991
The temperature on October 23, 1991 was between 8.8 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
April 5 » An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.
May 26 » Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
June 15 » In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.
July 7 » Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
November 28 » South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
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