January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
Day of death February 2, 1960
The temperature on February 2, 1960 was between 0.9 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 9 » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
January 19 » Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
May 1 » Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra; also known as "Maharashtra Day".
May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
November 25 » The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
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