February 22 » Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
October 11 » The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
December 2 » Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
Day of marriage February 23, 1933
The temperature on February 23, 1933 was between -5.9 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
March 4 » Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
March 9 » Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
March 10 » The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area leaving around 108 people dead.
April 1 » English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand.
April 26 » The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
October 7 » Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of five French airlines.
Day of death September 26, 1961
The temperature on September 26, 1961 was between 7.8 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
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.
January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
March 14 » A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.
May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
Day of burial September 30, 1961
The temperature on September 30, 1961 was between 14.6 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Cold War: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
April 12 » Cold War: Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
May 19 » Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
December 2 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
December 15 » Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
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