January 15 » The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
April 22 » At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
Day of marriage August 28, 1912
The temperature on August 28, 1912 was between 7.7 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
Day of death May 2, 1963
The temperature on May 2, 1963 was between 3.8 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (86%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 29 » The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
April 24 » Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
April 30 » The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
August 15 » President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
October 18 » Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space.
December 21 » "Bloody Christmas" begins in Cyprus, ultimately resulting in the displacement of 25,000–30,000 Turkish Cypriots and destruction of more than 100 villages.
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