January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
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 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
Day of marriage October 21, 1936
The temperature on October 21, 1936 was between 4.6 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 5 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
May 5 » Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
June 11 » The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
December 23 » Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional Defence Council of Aragon.
Day of death January 9, 2001
The temperature on January 9, 2001 was between 1.1 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
January 15 » Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
April 25 » Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
October 26 » The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
Day of burial January 13, 2001
The temperature on January 13, 2001 was between -3.2 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 29 » Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
June 10 » Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
August 10 » The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.
October 26 » The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
November 14 » War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
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