February 7 » Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse…!.
March 16 » In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.
June 11 » The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
December 18 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245mph (63.159km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
Day of death April 8, 1962
The temperature on April 8, 1962 was between 3.6 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 16.8 mm of rain during 13.6 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Netherlands New Guinea Conflict: Indonesian Navy fast patrol boat RI Macan Tutul commanded by Commodore Yos Sudarso sunk in Arafura Sea by the Dutch Navy.
May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
September 27 » Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
October 9 » Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
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