February 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
December 2 » Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
Day of marriage June 2, 1943
The temperature on June 2, 1943 was between 9.8 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
March 6 » Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
June 4 » A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
July 5 » World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
September 10 » World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
November 23 » World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
November 26 » World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
Day of death December 8, 1970
The temperature on December 8, 1970 was between 2.2 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 26 » South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
April 17 » Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
July 8 » Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
September 7 » Bill Shoemaker beats Johnny Longden's record to become the winningest jockey in horse racing history at Del Mar racetrack
September 19 » Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
October 2 » An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
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