February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
Day of marriage August 2, 1928
The temperature on August 2, 1928 was between 7.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
Day of death January 20, 1962
The temperature on January 20, 1962 was between 2.2 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
March 19 » Highly influential artist Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records.
July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
July 12 » The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club.
September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
November 4 » The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Day of burial October 27, 1969
The temperature on October 27, 1969 was between 9.2 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
July 3 » Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
July 16 » Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
July 19 » Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
November 10 » National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
November 15 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
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