The temperature on December 29, 1926 was between 3.6 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death March 31, 1944
The temperature on March 31, 1944 was between -3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
March 9 » World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
August 6 » The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out.
August 10 » World War II: The Battle of Guam comes to an effective end.
August 12 » Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
September 18 » World War II: The British submarine HMSTradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and POWs.
November 21 » World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.
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