The temperature on February 11, 1926 was between -1.3 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
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 marriage April 24, 1947
The temperature on April 24, 1947 was between 7.8 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
October 16 » The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
November 6 » Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut.
December 6 » The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
Day of death October 14, 2012
The temperature on October 14, 2012 was between 6.3 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
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 13 » The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
March 4 » A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
March 11 » A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
April 27 » At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
September 21 » Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.
November 9 » A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
Day of burial October 18, 2012
The temperature on October 18, 2012 was between 13.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 8.0 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
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 10 » A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
April 16 » The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
April 30 » An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
June 16 » China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.
July 20 » James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.
August 20 » A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
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