February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
Day of marriage May 28, 1924
The temperature on May 28, 1924 was between 6.6 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.
Day of death August 14, 1957
The temperature on August 14, 1957 was between 11.9 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
March 4 » The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
March 9 » The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
June 21 » Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
June 27 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
July 28 » Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
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