January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
Day of marriage May 8, 1930
The temperature on May 8, 1930 was between 1.5 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 16 » The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
March 6 » International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
April 28 » The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
September 8 » 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
December 29 » Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
Day of death September 1, 1960
The temperature on September 1, 1960 was between 10.6 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
May 1 » Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra; also known as "Maharashtra Day".
May 16 » Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
August 1 » Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
September 5 » Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
September 22 » The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
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