February 7 » Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…!.
February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
July 8 » The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
Day of marriage May 8, 1924
The temperature on May 8, 1924 was between 4.0 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 4 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.
March 8 » A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
Day of death February 26, 1989
The temperature on February 26, 1989 was between 3.4 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
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.
February 8 » Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport (Azores) killing all 144 passengers on board.
May 1 » Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
August 16 » A solar particle event affects computers at the Toronto Stock Exchange, forcing a halt to trading.
August 19 » Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.
December 17 » Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
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