January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
Day of death January 15, 1960
The temperature on January 15, 1960 was between -9.4 °C and -4.6 °C and averaged -6.5 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 1 » The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
May 13 » Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
May 23 » A tsunami caused by an earthquake in Chile the previous day kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.
June 20 » The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
June 26 » Madagascar gains its independence from France.
November 11 » A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
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