January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
Day of marriage August 29, 1933
The temperature on August 29, 1933 was between 11.2 °C and 26.1 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
January 3 » Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
April 4 » U.S. Navy airship USSAkron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
May 8 » Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
May 10 » Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
August 14 » Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; it is not fully extinguished until September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970km).
November 8 » Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.
Day of death May 6, 1995
The temperature on May 6, 1995 was between 7.0 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 20 » The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and wounding over 6,200 people.
July 23 » Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
August 24 » Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.
September 28 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
October 3 » The O. J. Simpson murder case ended with a verdict of not guilty.
November 22 » The 7.3 Mw Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
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