January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
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".
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death March 13, 1960
The temperature on March 13, 1960 was between 3.1 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
April 4 » France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
April 9 » Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer, David Pratt in Johannesburg.
April 26 » Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
July 8 » Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
August 16 » Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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