February 4 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
December 2 » Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
Day of marriage August 2, 1926
The temperature on August 2, 1926 was between 11.1 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
Day of death June 21, 1961
The temperature on June 21, 1961 was between 10.8 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 14 » A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.
April 25 » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
May 19 » Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
August 21 » American country music singer Patsy Cline returns to record producer Owen Bradley's studio in Nashville, Tennessee to record her vocals to Willie Nelson's "Crazy", which would become her signature song.
October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
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