January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of marriage February 21, 1949
The temperature on February 21, 1949 was between 5.6 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 26 » The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
April 5 » A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
September 21 » The People's Republic of China is proclaimed.
September 27 » Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
September 29 » The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
October 7 » The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
Day of death March 5, 1970
The temperature on March 5, 1970 was between -3.4 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
August 15 » Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
September 16 » King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict which became to be known as Black September.
October 16 » Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
October 17 » FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
November 13 » Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.
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