The temperature on October 9, 1926 was between 10.8 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
Day of marriage September 22, 1951
The temperature on September 22, 1951 was between 4.4 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 28 » First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mạo Khê, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
March 29 » Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
April 17 » The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
May 14 » Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
June 14 » UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
July 16 » King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
Day of death May 16, 2001
The temperature on May 16, 2001 was between 10.8 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 9.5 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 1 » Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
June 10 » Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
August 6 » Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
November 12 » War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
Day of burial May 22, 2001
The temperature on May 22, 2001 was between 6.6 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (93%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 29 » Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
February 13 » An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
June 23 » The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
December 13 » Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.
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