January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
Day of death February 5, 1962
The temperature on February 5, 1962 was between 2.9 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 27 » Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
March 2 » In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 27 » Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
October 9 » Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
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