July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of death August 2, 1959
The temperature on August 2, 1959 was between 13.1 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 4 » Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
June 8 » USSBarbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
September 26 » Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
November 2 » Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
December 1 » Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
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