In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
Day of death March 5, 1961
The temperature on March 5, 1961 was between -1.1 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
January 17 » Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
February 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
February 15 » Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.
July 19 » Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
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