March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage May 9, 1959
The temperature on May 9, 1959 was between 13.9 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 9 » The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
April 8 » The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
July 21 » NSSavannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
July 27 » The Continental League is announced as baseball's "3rd major league" in the United States.
September 15 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
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.
Day of death December 12, 1964
The temperature on December 12, 1964 was between 4.6 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 12.8 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
February 10 » Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMASVoyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
February 17 » Gabonese president Léon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
March 14 » Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
August 5 » Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers USSTiconderoga and USSConstellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
August 12 » South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.
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