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.
February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
March 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
July 6 » Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
Day of marriage August 31, 1915
The temperature on August 31, 1915 was between 7.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 13 » The 6.7 Mw Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978–32,610.
January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
Day of death January 2, 1959
The temperature on January 2, 1959 was between 1.0 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 22.3 mm of rain during 10.6 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
January 4 » Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
February 9 » The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
April 8 » A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
April 8 » The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
June 8 » USSBarbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
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