March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
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.
Day of marriage August 2, 1924
The temperature on August 2, 1924 was between 13.7 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (28%). 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 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.
October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
Day of death November 7, 1978
The temperature on November 7, 1978 was between 2.8 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
January 2 » On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills.
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 22 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
June 15 » King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.
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