The temperature on June 14, 1926 was between 7.7 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death May 30, 1962
The temperature on May 30, 1962 was between 3.2 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 2 » Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
May 19 » A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
June 1 » Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
August 7 » Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
October 8 » Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.
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