January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
Day of death April 16, 1975
The temperature on April 16, 1975 was between 5.2 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 5 » Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
March 6 » For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
August 27 » The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
September 14 » The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
October 16 » Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
November 22 » Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
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