February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
July 7 » US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
August 13 » Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
Day of marriage May 25, 1923
The temperature on May 25, 1923 was between 0.2 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (50%). 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.
January 9 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
September 29 » The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.
November 8 » Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
Day of death February 23, 1979
The temperature on February 23, 1979 was between -0.3 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
April 10 » Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
May 28 » Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
May 30 » Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
June 4 » Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
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