January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Day of marriage May 10, 1941
The temperature on May 10, 1941 was between 2.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 25 » Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
April 14 » World War II: German general Erwin Rommel attacks Tobruk.
April 23 » World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
May 12 » Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
August 22 » World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.
September 30 » World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.
Day of death December 17, 1954
The temperature on December 17, 1954 was between -1.1 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
April 1 » United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
May 13 » The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
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