January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
Day of marriage April 25, 1950
The temperature on April 25, 1950 was between -0.8 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 9.2 mm of rain during 8.7 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 31 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
March 7 » Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
June 1 » The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.
September 26 » Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
October 11 » CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
December 16 » Korean War: In response to China's Second Phase Offensive, U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a limited state of emergency.
Day of death September 29, 1962
The temperature on September 29, 1962 was between 8.9 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
October 13 » The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane, with winds above 150mph. 46 people die.
November 4 » The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
November 24 » Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
December 11 » Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
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