January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
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.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
Day of death June 10, 1960
The temperature on June 10, 1960 was between 11.6 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
April 4 » France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
April 19 » Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
November 11 » A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
November 25 » The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
December 11 » French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle.
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