April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage January 18, 1935
The temperature on January 18, 1935 was between -1.2 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
May 24 » The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
August 14 » Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
September 30 » The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
October 20 » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
December 5 » Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
Day of death April 26, 1979
The temperature on April 26, 1979 was between 3.8 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
April 10 » Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
May 4 » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
July 19 » The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
November 30 » Pink Floyd's rock opera, The Wall is released.
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