In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Day of death January 29, 1960
The temperature on January 29, 1960 was between 3.1 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
February 19 » China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
May 1 » Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
September 14 » The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
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