March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
Day of death April 24, 1957
The temperature on April 24, 1957 was between 6.4 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
March 9 » The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
July 1 » The International Geophysical Year begins.
November 14 » The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
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