March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
Day of marriage April 1, 1926
The temperature on April 1, 1926 was between 0.9 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
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 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
Day of death June 11, 1972
The temperature on June 11, 1972 was between 6.4 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
March 22 » In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
September 30 » Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
October 13 » Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. 28 survive the crash. All but 16 succumb before rescue on December 23.
November 7 » US President Richard Nixon is re-elected President.
November 11 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
November 30 » Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000.
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