March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
August 30 » Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
Day of marriage January 8, 1926
The temperature on January 8, 1926 was between 2.7 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
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 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death April 26, 1956
The average temperature on April 26, 1956 was 7.1 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
January 4 » The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
March 1 » The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
July 26 » Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.
October 8 » The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
October 30 » Hungarian Revolution: The government recognizes the new workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.
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