January 1 » New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
December 18 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245mph (63.159km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
Day of death January 31, 1967
The temperature on January 31, 1967 was between 7.2 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
February 13 » American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
March 14 » The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
July 29 » Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USSForrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
September 15 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
October 29 » Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
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