June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
July 3 » Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
Day of marriage May 23, 1914
The temperature on May 23, 1914 was between 11.1 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
April 21 » Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
July 29 » The Cape Cod Canal opened.
August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
Day of death September 23, 1928
The temperature on September 23, 1928 was between 3.4 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
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