April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
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".
Day of marriage June 17, 1937
The temperature on June 17, 1937 was between 7.5 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
May 6 » Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
July 2 » Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
Day of death October 19, 1961
The temperature on October 19, 1961 was between 3.3 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 16 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
June 1 » The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.
August 1 » U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
September 1 » The first conference of the Non-Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
September 16 » The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
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