February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
Day of death November 20, 1962
The temperature on November 20, 1962 was between -1.6 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
August 7 » Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
August 27 » The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
October 27 » An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
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