January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
Day of marriage January 15, 1919
The temperature on January 15, 1919 was between 7.2 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 15 » Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
February 11 » Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
July 21 » The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
September 22 » The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
October 2 » U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him incapacitated for several weeks.
October 16 » Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
Day of death September 6, 1970
The temperature on September 6, 1970 was between 8.5 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 28 » An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring 1,260.
May 11 » The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250million in damage.
June 21 » Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date.
July 21 » After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
November 4 » Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
November 12 » The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
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