January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
Day of death October 30, 1963
The temperature on October 30, 1963 was between 2.5 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 24 » Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
August 5 » Cold War: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
August 22 » X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96km (67.08mi) (354,200 feet)).
September 16 » Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country.
October 10 » France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
December 25 » Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
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