January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
June 11 » The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
July 25 » Spanish-American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held Puerto Rico begins, as United States Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at Guánica.
Day of death February 7, 1962
The temperature on February 7, 1962 was between 5.2 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Netherlands New Guinea Conflict: Indonesian Navy fast patrol boat RI Macan Tutul commanded by Commodore Yos Sudarso sunk in Arafura Sea by the Dutch Navy.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
November 24 » Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
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