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.
February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
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 21 » A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435 miners.
April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
June 25 » Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
December 13 » While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
December 15 » Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.
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