The temperature on December 26, 1926 was between -4.4 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
Day of marriage February 5, 1957
The temperature on February 5, 1957 was between 8.1 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 5 » In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
September 2 » President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
November 7 » Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
Day of death July 9, 2012
The temperature on July 9, 2012 was between 13.8 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
April 30 » An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
June 29 » A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
July 30 » A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300million people without power in northern India.
September 9 » A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
November 15 » Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
November 17 » At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.
Day of burial July 13, 2012
The temperature on July 13, 2012 was between 12.9 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 10.6 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The almost completely overcast 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.
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