April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
Day of death August 19, 1960
The temperature on August 19, 1960 was between 10.8 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
March 4 » The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
April 9 » Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer, David Pratt in Johannesburg.
April 27 » Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
August 19 » Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
October 29 » In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
Day of burial August 22, 1960
The temperature on August 22, 1960 was between 14.3 °C and 25.9 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
September 8 » In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
September 18 » Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
November 14 » Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
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