The temperature on January 27, 1910 was between -7.8 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -1.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 13 » The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
April 16 » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of death September 26, 1990
The temperature on September 26, 1990 was between 7.5 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 11 » Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
March 18 » In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
March 20 » Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
August 13 » A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwan's naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese illegal immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.
September 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
November 14 » After German reunification, the Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
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