January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
Day of marriage March 16, 1923
The temperature on March 16, 1923 was between 0.9 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 9 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
March 3 » TIME magazine is published for the first time.
June 18 » Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
October 13 » Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
October 31 » The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
Day of death May 20, 1962
The temperature on May 20, 1962 was between 6.7 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
July 11 » Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
December 9 » The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
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