The temperature on March 18, 1926 was between 1.4 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
January 8 » Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
Day of death November 29, 2012
The temperature on November 29, 2012 was between 1.0 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
May 10 » The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.
May 20 » At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
June 2 » Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
September 9 » A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
November 6 » Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States
November 30 » An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people.
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