January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Day of marriage October 24, 1926
The temperature on October 24, 1926 was between -1.3 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
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 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
Day of death December 4, 1987
The temperature on December 4, 1987 was between -1.7 °C and 2.1 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 4 » The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.
February 2 » After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
June 19 » Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
October 11 » Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
December 7 » Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.
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