January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
July 26 » In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Day of marriage May 26, 1916
The temperature on May 26, 1916 was between 10.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 3 » The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of 7 lives.
April 20 » The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.
July 19 » World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
September 8 » In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
November 1 » In Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
Day of death July 10, 1955
The temperature on July 10, 1955 was between 14.2 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 14.6 hours of sunshine (89%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
April 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
June 2 » The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
September 16 » A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
Day of burial July 13, 1955
The temperature on July 13, 1955 was between 16.0 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
August 19 » In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
November 1 » The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
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