The temperature on March 20, 1895 was about 6.4 °C. There was 11 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
September 3 » John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
Day of death September 1, 1965
The temperature on September 1, 1965 was between 7.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
May 27 » Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
July 25 » Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
July 29 » Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
August 6 » US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
September 21 » The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
November 24 » Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
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