April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Day of marriage October 24, 1928
The temperature on October 24, 1928 was between 6.6 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
Day of death November 1, 1960
The temperature on November 1, 1960 was between 6.9 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 16.8 mm of rain during 11.6 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
May 7 » Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
May 9 » The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
May 11 » Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.
September 14 » The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
October 12 » Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death during a live Television broadcast.
November 1 » While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
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