June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
Day of death November 28, 1959
The temperature on November 28, 1959 was between 5.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 30 » MSHans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMSTitanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
April 9 » Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
June 5 » The first government of Singapore is sworn in.
July 27 » The Continental League is announced as baseball's "3rd major league" in the United States.
September 12 » Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
September 12 » The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
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