June 12 » New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
November 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
Day of marriage April 14, 1926
The temperature on April 14, 1926 was between 1.5 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
Day of burial July 19, 1997
The temperature on July 19, 1997 was between 14.2 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
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February 5 » The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
June 16 » Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
August 3 » Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
August 20 » Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
August 25 » Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
November 3 » The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
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