The temperature on January 8, 1926 was between 2.7 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of marriage July 31, 1947
The temperature on July 31, 1947 was between 12.8 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
July 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.
Day of death December 5, 2014
The temperature on December 5, 2014 was between 1.4 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 9 » An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
May 24 » A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
July 23 » TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
October 14 » Utah State University receives a bomb threat against feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, who was to give a lecture the next day.
October 30 » Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
December 31 » A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
Day of burial December 10, 2014
The temperature on December 10, 2014 was between 4.4 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 6.6 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
May 5 » Twenty-two people die after two boats carrying refugees collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.
May 11 » Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
May 23 » Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
June 23 » The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
July 17 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
November 12 » The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
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