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.
May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
Day of marriage October 31, 1941
The temperature on October 31, 1941 was between -1.5 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
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.
January 6 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
February 25 » The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews.
April 16 » World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.
May 12 » Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
July 26 » World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.
December 1 » World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
Day of death November 10, 1988
The temperature on November 10, 1988 was between 10.1 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
September 29 » NASA launches STS-26, the first mission since the Challenger disaster.
October 7 » A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
November 18 » War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
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