January 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
Day of marriage May 18, 1927
The temperature on May 18, 1927 was between 2.2 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
Day of death August 13, 1962
The temperature on August 13, 1962 was between 12.4 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 4 » A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
August 20 » The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
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