January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
Day of death May 11, 1962
The temperature on May 11, 1962 was between 7.1 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
June 14 » The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 25 » The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
December 9 » The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
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