April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
Day of marriage April 25, 1923
The temperature on April 25, 1923 was between -2.4 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 9 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
Day of death February 26, 1959
The temperature on February 26, 1959 was between 2.1 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
February 20 » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
April 8 » The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
June 14 » Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
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