The temperature on May 16, 1926 was between 6.4 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
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.
June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of marriage February 21, 1948
The temperature on February 21, 1948 was between -10.4 °C and -2.7 °C and averaged -6.4 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
March 25 » The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
April 3 » In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju uprising.
May 9 » Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
May 24 » Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
May 26 » The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 80-557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
December 10 » The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
Day of death July 2, 2018
The temperature on July 2, 2018 was between 12.9 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 15.3 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
January 23 » A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
January 31 » Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
May 25 » Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
July 25 » As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
December 18 » List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
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