From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
Day of death May 13, 1961
The temperature on May 13, 1961 was between 8.3 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
January 31 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
March 2 » John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
April 11 » The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
August 10 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20million US gallons (76,000m) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
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