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.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
December 9 » English football club Newcastle United is founded.
December 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.
Day of death March 29, 1966
The temperature on March 29, 1966 was between 0.3 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 2 » Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
May 6 » Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
June 30 » The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
September 6 » Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
December 5 » The musical I Do! I Do!, starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston opens at the 46th Street Theatre, in New York City, and closes on June 15, 1968, after 560 performances.
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