February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
Day of marriage May 4, 1946
The temperature on May 4, 1946 was between 5.6 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
January 25 » The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
February 24 » Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina.
April 23 » Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
July 7 » Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
July 25 » The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
August 4 » An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. One hundred are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
Day of death March 31, 1967
The temperature on March 31, 1967 was between -0.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 26 » Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
May 10 » The Northrop M2-F2 crashes on landing, becoming the inspiration for the novel Cyborg and TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.
May 26 » The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
July 29 » During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
November 9 » The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
December 3 » At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
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