May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
Day of marriage November 25, 1926
The temperature on November 25, 1926 was between 1.8 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Day of death January 16, 1982
The temperature on January 16, 1982 was between -0.9 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
April 25 » Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
May 2 » Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMSConqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
September 1 » The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
October 20 » During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
November 13 » The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
December 13 » The 6.0 Ms North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800, and injuring 1,500.
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