U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Ancestry.com, The National Archives in St. Louis, Missouri; St. Louis, Missouri; WWII Draft Registration Cards for California, 10/16/1940 - 03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 166 / Ancestry.com
February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
Day of marriage April 24, 1958
The temperature on April 24, 1958 was between 2.4 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 4 » Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
July 25 » The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
September 12 » Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
September 15 » A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
October 7 » The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
Day of death October 30, 1968
The temperature on October 30, 1968 was between 8.7 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 7 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
April 11 » Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement.
April 11 » President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
November 17 » Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
December 13 » Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
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