June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
Day of marriage July 27, 1914
The temperature on July 27, 1914 was between 9.8 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). 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.
April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
August 2 » The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
August 24 » World War I: German troops capture Namur.
September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
October 18 » The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
November 23 » Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
Day of death November 28, 1954
The temperature on November 28, 1954 was between 6.0 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 14 » The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
June 27 » The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
July 5 » The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
August 15 » Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
December 23 » First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
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