January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
Day of marriage February 23, 1924
The temperature on February 23, 1924 was between -3.6 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
Day of death June 24, 1965
The temperature on June 24, 1965 was between 11.4 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 7 » Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
March 24 » Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television.
August 6 » US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
August 29 » The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
September 11 » Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
November 27 » Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
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