July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
Day of death June 28, 1960
The temperature on June 28, 1960 was between 9.7 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 5 » Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
April 27 » Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
August 6 » Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
October 29 » An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
November 8 » John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States.
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