January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
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.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
Day of marriage June 13, 1929
The temperature on June 13, 1929 was between 11.4 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
May 1 » The 7.2 Mw Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
November 7 » In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
Day of death August 22, 1972
The temperature on August 22, 1972 was between 9.5 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
February 18 » The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
February 21 » United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
February 22 » The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
April 2 » Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
September 9 » In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
December 7 » Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
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