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.
March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
Day of death April 7, 1962
The temperature on April 7, 1962 was between 2.4 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 10.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
February 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
March 2 » Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
July 23 » The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
September 30 » Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.
December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
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