January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
Day of marriage November 9, 1928
The temperature on November 9, 1928 was between -2.8 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
Day of death September 1, 1965
The temperature on September 1, 1965 was between 7.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 8 » Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
March 19 » The wreck of the SSGeorgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
July 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
August 11 » Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
September 30 » The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
December 9 » Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
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