In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
November 8 » The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Day of death February 26, 1962
The temperature on February 26, 1962 was between -5.4 °C and -0.7 °C and averaged -3.0 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
July 6 » The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
July 8 » Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.
July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
August 20 » The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
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