February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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.
October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
Day of death December 4, 1926
The temperature on December 4, 1926 was between 0.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 4.8 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
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