May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of marriage April 29, 1926
The temperature on April 29, 1926 was between 8.8 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
Day of death January 9, 1978
The temperature on January 9, 1978 was between 1.1 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
May 4 » The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
June 22 » Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
July 1 » The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
September 7 » While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
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