Geboorte op 31 december 1901 te Wehl = Vader Richard van Haaren, 35 jaar oud, landbouwer van beroep Moeder Grada Wilhelmina Stapelbroek, zonder beroep = Kind (mannelijk) Otto Gerhard Joseph van Haaren, geboren op 31 december 1901 te Wehl = Bronvermelding Gelders Archief te Arnhem, BS Geboorte; Wehl, Wehl, archief 207A, inventarisnummer 2545-19, 02-01-1902, Wehl, aktenummer 1
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
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 January 11, 1969
The temperature on January 11, 1969 was between -0.3 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 30 » The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
March 28 » Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
May 16 » Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
May 18 » Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
August 8 » At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
October 29 » The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
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