January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
August 30 » Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
Day of marriage June 11, 1921
The temperature on June 11, 1921 was between 8.2 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 20 » The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
November 11 » The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
Day of death October 20, 1960
The temperature on October 20, 1960 was between 5.6 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
March 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
April 25 » The United States Navy submarine USSTriton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
September 24 » USSEnterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
November 2 » Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
November 28 » Mauritania becomes independent of France.
Day of burial October 24, 1960
The temperature on October 24, 1960 was between 9.8 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
April 27 » Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
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.
July 20 » The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USSGeorge Washington, for the first time.
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