The temperature on January 14, 1926 was between -9.9 °C and -6.4 °C and averaged -8 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
Day of death August 23, 2010
The temperature on August 23, 2010 was between 16.8 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 13.2 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
April 14 » Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
June 16 » Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
July 25 » WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
July 29 » An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.
October 4 » The Ajka plant accident Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
October 13 » The mining accident in Copiapó, Chile ends as all 33 trapped miners arrive at the surface after a record 69 days underground.
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