January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
Day of marriage May 22, 1924
The temperature on May 22, 1924 was between 13.7 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
Day of death May 25, 1978
The temperature on May 25, 1978 was between 8.8 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
February 19 » Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
March 28 » The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
April 27 » The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
May 4 » The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
June 26 » Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
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