February 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
September 13 » Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
Day of marriage April 18, 1929
The temperature on April 18, 1929 was between 3.1 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
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.
February 9 » Members of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang assassinated the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
November 7 » In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
Day of death January 29, 1962
The temperature on January 29, 1962 was between -6.4 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -2.8 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 10 » Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
February 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
November 7 » Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and First Lady of the 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies in her bed at her home in New York City.
December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
Day of burial February 1, 1962
The temperature on February 1, 1962 was between -2.4 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly 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.
August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
August 16 » Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
August 20 » The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
October 27 » An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
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