February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
April 22 » At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
July 11 » Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
Day of death September 4, 1964
The temperature on September 4, 1964 was between 7.9 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 31 » Brazilian General Olímpio Mourão Filho orders his troops to move towards Rio de Janeiro, beginning the coup d'état.
April 7 » A bulldozer kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking a riot.
April 21 » A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, 2.1 pounds (0.95kg) of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.
April 26 » Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
October 10 » The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
October 22 » An all-party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which will become the new official flag of Canada.
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