In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
December 9 » English football club Newcastle United is founded.
December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Day of death August 8, 1965
The temperature on August 8, 1965 was between 10.7 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain during 6.3 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 17 » Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
April 11 » The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
April 21 » The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
April 24 » Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
July 30 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
September 6 » India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
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