March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death October 7, 1963
The temperature on October 7, 1963 was between 3.4 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 5 » The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
April 12 » The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
May 22 » Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt, and dies five days later.
June 24 » The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
August 15 » Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
August 28 » March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
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