The temperature on January 20, 1926 was between -3.1 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
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.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
Day of marriage November 7, 1952
The temperature on November 7, 1952 was between 3.9 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 9 » Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
June 21 » The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
September 15 » The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
November 19 » Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
Day of death November 9, 2013
The temperature on November 9, 2013 was between 5.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 13.2 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
February 11 » The Vatican confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy as a result of his advanced age.
February 27 » A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.
April 4 » More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
June 7 » A bus catches fire in the Chinese city of Xiamen, killing at least 47 people and injuring more than 34 others.
August 15 » At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
December 14 » A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.
Day of burial November 14, 2013
The temperature on November 14, 2013 was between 4.9 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast 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.
January 1 » At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
April 9 » At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
June 3 » At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
August 15 » At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
September 16 » A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.
October 11 » A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 34 people drowning.
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