The temperature on December 26, 1926 was between -4.4 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
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.)
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
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 marriage June 2, 1960
The temperature on June 2, 1960 was between 8.4 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
October 1 » Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
November 4 » At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
December 9 » The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
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