January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
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.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
Day of marriage February 2, 1917
The temperature on February 2, 1917 was between -15.2 °C and -1.0 °C and averaged -7.6 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 9 » World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
June 5 » World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
Day of death November 22, 1962
The temperature on November 22, 1962 was between -6.1 °C and -1.5 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
July 12 » The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club.
August 27 » The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
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