January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
Day of marriage January 30, 1931
The temperature on January 30, 1931 was between -0.2 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
March 3 » The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
May 1 » The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
November 22 » Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq.
Day of death September 13, 1969
The temperature on September 13, 1969 was between 13.5 °C and 26.4 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (76%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 17 » Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
May 26 » Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
June 3 » Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USSFrank E. Evans in half.
July 3 » Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
September 14 » The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.
November 15 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
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