March 16 » Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
Day of marriage August 11, 1926
The temperature on August 11, 1926 was between 12.2 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death September 26, 1967
The temperature on September 26, 1967 was between 15.7 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 14 » The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
May 20 » The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
September 15 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
October 29 » Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
November 22 » UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
December 17 » Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned.
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