May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
December 30 » Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of marriage May 11, 1932
The temperature on May 11, 1932 was between 3.2 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 25 » Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.
May 15 » In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
May 20 » Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
May 28 » In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
August 24 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
October 3 » Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Day of death July 3, 1972
The temperature on July 3, 1972 was between 12.0 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
February 21 » United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
April 22 » Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.
June 8 » Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
July 21 » The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
August 11 » Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
November 8 » American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches, initially transmitting to 365 Teleservice Cable subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. First operating as a Northeastern U.S.-based regional service, HBO was one of the first cable-originated television channels. HBO's inaugural programming that evening consisted of its first event telecast—an NHL hockey game between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks, and its first movie presentation—the 1971 Paul Newman–Henry Fonda film Sometimes a Great Notion.
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