The temperature on March 30, 1926 was between 0.4 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
Day of marriage March 11, 1947
The temperature on March 11, 1947 was between -3.3 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.
November 20 » The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
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