The temperature on October 16, 1926 was between 5.1 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
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.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
Day of death June 9, 2004
The temperature on June 9, 2004 was between 13.2 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 9 » An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula en route to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28. This is the second deadliest marine disaster in Albanian history.
March 29 » Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
April 3 » Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
May 17 » The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
December 26 » Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
December 27 » Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
Day of burial June 14, 2004
The temperature on June 14, 2004 was between 6.9 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 13 » The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
March 12 » The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
June 11 » Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
August 3 » The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
August 13 » One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
September 8 » NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
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