April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
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.
August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage March 24, 1923
The temperature on March 24, 1923 was between 1.8 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
March 3 » TIME magazine is published for the first time.
April 28 » Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
September 9 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
October 22 » The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
November 11 » Adolf Hitler was arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
Day of death November 18, 1959
The temperature on November 18, 1959 was between 3.8 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 6 » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
February 16 » Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
February 20 » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
June 14 » Dominican exiles depart from Cuba and land in the Dominican Republic to overthrow the totalitarian government of Rafael Trujillo. All but four are killed or executed.
September 12 » Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
September 26 » Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
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