January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage April 8, 1936
The temperature on April 8, 1936 was between -0.7 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 5 » First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
April 5 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
July 11 » The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
August 24 » The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
October 5 » The Jarrow March sets off for London.
November 20 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
Day of death December 14, 1961
The temperature on December 14, 1961 was between 0.5 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
May 4 » Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67km).
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.
October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
November 29 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
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