1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1920; Census Place: Pittsburgh Ward 13, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1522; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 533; Image: 444 / Ancestry.com
1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1930; Census Place: French Creek, Mercer, Pennsylvania; Roll: 2076; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0019; Image: 906.0; FHL microfilm: 2341810 / Ancestry.com
March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of marriage November 4, 1912
The temperature on November 4, 1912 was between -1.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
Day of death November 1, 1957
The temperature on November 1, 1957 was between 7.5 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
January 5 » In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
March 17 » A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
March 25 » The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
June 9 » First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
August 31 » The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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