January 6 » Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.
Christening day April 3, 1927
The temperature on April 3, 1927 was between 4.6 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
July 16 » Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
Day of death May 29, 1961
The temperature on May 29, 1961 was between 1.5 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
May 4 » Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67km).
May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
August 11 » The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
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