July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
Day of marriage May 10, 1922
The temperature on May 10, 1922 was between 2.5 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
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.
March 10 » Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
March 15 » After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
March 20 » The USSLangley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
July 11 » The Hollywood Bowl opens.
September 9 » The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
September 13 » The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
Day of death November 5, 1969
The temperature on November 5, 1969 was between 2.5 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
June 3 » Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USSFrank E. Evans in half.
June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
September 1 » Trần Thiện Khiêm becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.
October 1 » Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
October 29 » The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
Day of burial November 8, 1969
The temperature on November 8, 1969 was between 6.0 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 18 » United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
February 4 » Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
April 7 » The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
July 24 » Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
November 20 » Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
December 24 » Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.
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