April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
Day of death November 8, 1972
The temperature on November 8, 1972 was between 1.6 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
April 22 » Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
May 5 » Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
June 20 » Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
August 3 » The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
August 16 » In an unsuccessful coup d'état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
October 13 » Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. 28 survive the crash. All but 16 succumb before rescue on December 23.
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