March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage November 29, 1934
The temperature on November 29, 1934 was between 6.0 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 15 » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
October 16 » Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
December 11 » Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.
Day of death January 4, 1961
The temperature on January 4, 1961 was between 2.1 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
August 25 » President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
December 2 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
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