January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of death March 1, 1961
The temperature on March 1, 1961 was between 2.9 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
April 20 » Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
June 23 » The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
August 1 » U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
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