April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
June 12 » Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
July 4 » En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
August 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
Day of marriage May 19, 1923
The temperature on May 19, 1923 was between 1.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1 » Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
January 9 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
July 1 » The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
September 9 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
September 29 » The First American Track & Field championships for women are held.
September 29 » The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.
Day of death September 28, 1961
The temperature on September 28, 1961 was between 13.4 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
March 14 » A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.
July 25 » Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
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