The temperature on September 2, 1926 was between 16.0 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Day of death May 1, 2001
The temperature on May 1, 2001 was between 7.4 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 31 » In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
February 11 » A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
December 19 » A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
Day of burial May 4, 2001
The temperature on May 4, 2001 was between 5.9 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 23 » The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
April 1 » Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
May 9 » In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
June 1 » Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
June 21 » A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
September 17 » The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
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