January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.
Day of death August 3, 1974
The temperature on August 3, 1974 was between 5.4 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 7 » Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
February 17 » Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
May 30 » The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
August 8 » President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
October 30 » The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.
December 1 » Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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