January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
Day of marriage October 22, 1943
The temperature on October 22, 1943 was between 10.1 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
March 14 » The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.
July 11 » Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
September 7 » World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
September 16 » World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
October 17 » The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
November 22 » World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
Day of death October 18, 2001
The temperature on October 18, 2001 was between 12.6 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 13 » An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
December 19 » A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
December 22 » Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
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