February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
Day of marriage October 31, 1957
The temperature on October 31, 1957 was between 11.4 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 8.0 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
May 1 » Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire, England.
September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
November 8 » Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
Day of death June 24, 1995
The temperature on June 24, 1995 was between 11.0 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
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February 28 » Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the 1993 Australian federal election.
May 28 » The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shook the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.
June 29 » Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
July 23 » Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
July 27 » The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
October 15 » Marco Campos dies in a race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series.
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