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1943 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men. 1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified. 1973 - The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota. 1974 - People magazine is published for the first time.
Independence Day (Dominican Republic), celebrates the first independence of Dominican Republicfrom Haitiin 1844. Majuba Day(some Afrikanersin South Africa) Marathi Language Day(Maharashtra, India) World NGO Day. References. [edit] ^The London Quarterly and Holborn Review. 1873. p. 359. Archivedfrom the original on 2022-02-14. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
On this day/Today. 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the gondola of a hot air balloon. 1890 – The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was founded in Uddevalla, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about universal suffrage. 1928 – The iron lung (example ...
2017 (Saturday) 2016 (Friday) 2015 (Wednesday) October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ; 78 days remain until the end of the year.
1947 – February 28 incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the death of an estimated 28,000 civilians. [9] 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S ...
February 15 – Second Boer War: The Siege of Kimberley is lifted. February 16 – The Southern Cross expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink achieves a new Farthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the Great Ice Barrier. [1] February 17 – Second Boer War: Battle of Paardeberg – British troops defeat the Boers. February 27
August 29 is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 124 days remain until the end of the year.
2016 (Wednesday) 2015 (Tuesday) January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 338 days remain until the end of the year (339 in leap years).