February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
Day of marriage March 22, 1923
The temperature on March 22, 1923 was between -1.0 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
February 16 » Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
March 3 » TIME magazine is published for the first time.
April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
August 2 » Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
September 12 » Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
September 29 » The First American Track & Field championships for women are held.
Day of death February 23, 1997
The temperature on February 23, 1997 was between 6.5 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded 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, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
June 2 » In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
August 10 » Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
September 26 » An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
October 12 » The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
October 15 » The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
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