March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
Day of marriage May 8, 1914
The temperature on May 8, 1914 was between 6.9 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 13 » Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
April 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
December 25 » A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.
Day of death March 29, 1957
The temperature on March 29, 1957 was between 3.9 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
August 21 » The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
November 1 » The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
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