January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
Day of death November 1, 1971
The temperature on November 1, 1971 was between 8.4 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 5 » In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
April 19 » Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
August 9 » The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.
August 10 » The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
October 25 » The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
November 18 » Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.
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