January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
Day of marriage February 21, 1912
The temperature on February 21, 1912 was between -2.1 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
Day of death August 19, 1966
The temperature on August 19, 1966 was between 14.3 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
July 4 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
August 26 » The South African Border War starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
November 15 » A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
December 5 » The musical I Do! I Do!, starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston opens at the 46th Street Theatre, in New York City, and closes on June 15, 1968, after 560 performances.
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