February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
April 15 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
Day of marriage April 8, 1932
The temperature on April 8, 1932 was between 2.1 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
July 8 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
July 31 » The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
September 5 » The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
September 7 » The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
November 24 » In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
Day of death April 30, 1957
The temperature on April 30, 1957 was between 6.6 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
April 24 » Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
September 22 » In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
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