The temperature on October 17, 1926 was between 2.2 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
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 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
Day of death November 1, 2013
The temperature on November 1, 2013 was between 9.7 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
April 9 » At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
April 18 » A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
June 7 » A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing six people, including the suspect.
June 30 » Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.
November 21 » Fifty-four people are killed when the roof of a shopping center collapses in Riga, Latvia.
December 19 » Spacecraft Gaia is launched by European Space Agency.
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