January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
Day of marriage February 25, 1932
The temperature on February 25, 1932 was between -1.1 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
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 18 » The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
April 5 » Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
July 1 » Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.
September 23 » The unification of Saudi Arabia is completed.
November 24 » In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
December 7 » German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
Day of death November 11, 1968
The temperature on November 11, 1968 was between 0.4 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
March 16 » General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
July 17 » Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
October 11 » NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.
December 10 » Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
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