January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
Day of marriage July 12, 1911
The temperature on July 12, 1911 was between 12.2 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
Day of death September 22, 1966
The temperature on September 22, 1966 was between 6.9 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 26 » The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
July 24 » Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
July 30 » England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
September 9 » The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
November 15 » A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
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