January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
July 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
Day of death November 29, 1959
The temperature on November 29, 1959 was between 4.2 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 30 » The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.
March 18 » The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
April 8 » A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
April 8 » The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.
June 5 » The first government of Singapore is sworn in.
June 23 » Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
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