The temperature on December 29, 1926 was between 3.6 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
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 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
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
Day of death May 30, 2013
The temperature on May 30, 2013 was between 10.6 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 15 » A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.
April 17 » An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
May 30 » Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
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.
July 16 » As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
July 18 » The Government of Detroit, with up to $20billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
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