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.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
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.
January 31 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to Korean War is adopted.
February 25 » The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Perón.
March 29 » Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
May 23 » Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement with China.
July 10 » Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
September 28 » CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
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
January 13 » An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
January 29 » Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
October 11 » The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
November 14 » War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
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 16 » Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
September 20 » In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
October 1 » Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, killing 38.
October 4 » Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
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