January 31 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
Day of marriage October 31, 1934
The temperature on October 31, 1934 was between 2.0 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 6 » Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
June 26 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
August 11 » The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
August 19 » The German referendum of 1934 approves Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer.
December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
Day of death August 20, 1965
The temperature on August 20, 1965 was between 8.2 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
May 12 » The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
September 21 » The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
October 21 » Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
November 24 » Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
December 30 » Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
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