The temperature on April 19, 1926 was between 5.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 13.4 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
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.
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 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
Day of marriage July 9, 1954
The temperature on July 9, 1954 was between 8.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 1 » United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
April 8 » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
April 25 » The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
November 12 » Ellis Island ceased operations.
Day of death December 9, 2014
The temperature on December 9, 2014 was between -2.1 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
April 9 » A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
May 5 » Twenty-two people die after two boats carrying refugees collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.
June 14 » A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.
October 1 » A double bombing of an elementary school in Homs, Syria kills over 50 people.
November 28 » Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
December 15 » A gunman takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.
Day of burial December 13, 2014
The temperature on December 13, 2014 was between 0.8 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
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