January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
June 12 » New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Day of marriage March 1, 1924
The temperature on March 1, 1924 was between -1.1 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.
Day of death February 29, 1944
The temperature on February 29, 1944 was between -3.8 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 3 » World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
April 22 » World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
June 9 » World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
June 30 » World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
July 17 » Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
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