February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
Day of marriage September 2, 1915
The temperature on September 2, 1915 was between 7.4 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
Day of death April 18, 1959
The temperature on April 18, 1959 was between 6.8 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
February 16 » Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
March 9 » The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
June 30 » A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
September 12 » The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
October 7 » The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
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