May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of death January 5, 1966
The temperature on January 5, 1966 was between -3.7 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
March 4 » In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
July 15 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
August 26 » The South African Border War starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
November 8 » Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
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