January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
Day of marriage April 13, 1926
The temperature on April 13, 1926 was between 0.5 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death August 8, 1974
The temperature on August 8, 1974 was between 15.1 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (33%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
January 6 » In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
February 22 » Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but is killed by police.
March 3 » Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
April 8 » At Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.
September 12 » Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
October 30 » The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.
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