July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
August 30 » Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of marriage November 28, 1934
The temperature on November 28, 1934 was between 7.0 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
May 15 » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
September 22 » The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
Day of death May 2, 1962
The temperature on May 2, 1962 was between 5.5 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400km).
February 16 » Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
September 30 » Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.
October 14 » The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
October 27 » An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
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