In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
June 6 » The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
December 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.
Day of death March 11, 1963
The temperature on March 11, 1963 was between 1.3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
May 2 » Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
May 11 » Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
May 19 » The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
December 8 » Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
December 26 » The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
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