April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
August 11 » Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
September 13 » Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
December 18 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245mph (63.159km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
Day of death October 31, 1958
The temperature on October 31, 1958 was between 5.8 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 13.3 mm of rain during 10.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
March 24 » Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
November 12 » A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
December 5 » The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
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