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.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of marriage August 24, 1932
The temperature on August 24, 1932 was between 8.5 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 12 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
May 20 » Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
July 8 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
September 7 » The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
September 17 » A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
September 23 » The unification of Saudi Arabia is completed.
Day of death April 18, 1965
The temperature on April 18, 1965 was between 3.6 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 15 » A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
March 19 » The wreck of the SSGeorgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
June 9 » Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
June 19 » Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
December 9 » A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
December 21 » International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.
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