January 1 » New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
August 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
Day of marriage October 6, 1931
The temperature on October 6, 1931 was between 6.7 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
March 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
Day of death December 23, 1957
The temperature on December 23, 1957 was between 0.6 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
April 9 » The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
April 11 » United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
September 22 » In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
November 1 » The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
November 17 » Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.
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