January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage April 28, 1937
The temperature on April 28, 1937 was between 3.1 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
Day of death May 3, 1967
The temperature on May 3, 1967 was between -2.3 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
June 2 » Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
August 8 » The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
September 10 » The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
October 2 » Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
December 17 » Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.
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