January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage July 11, 1936
The temperature on July 11, 1936 was between 10.1 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 29 » The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
March 5 » First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
June 30 » Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
July 17 » Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
Day of death March 13, 1968
The temperature on March 13, 1968 was between 2.3 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
August 1 » The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
October 31 » Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
November 17 » Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
November 20 » A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
December 10 » Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
Day of burial March 19, 1968
The temperature on March 19, 1968 was between 2.9 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 7 » Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
April 23 » Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
October 2 » Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
November 23 » 1968 Yale vs. Harvard football game: Harvard Crimson rallies to tie Yale Bulldogs 29–29 at Harvard Stadium in Boston, Massachusetts.
December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
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