Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 93 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
- Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
- E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
- The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
- Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla demonstrates Wireless power in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Battle of Adwa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
- Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
- The Australian Army is formed.
- The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
- Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
- The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
- The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
- March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
- The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
- Charles Lindbergh’s son is kidnapped.
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- Declaration of the founding of Manchukuo.
- The Hoover Dam is completed.
- A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen’s Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
- An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
- World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
- W47NV begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.
- The Bank of England is nationalised.
- The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
- Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
- Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
- Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
- Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
- The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
- Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee
- Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
