The temperature on May 27, 1926 was between 9.9 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
Day of death October 28, 1969
The temperature on October 28, 1969 was between 11.0 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
April 4 » Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
April 17 » Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
August 4 » Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
November 19 » Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
December 4 » Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
Day of burial November 1, 1969
The temperature on November 1, 1969 was between 9.2 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
March 10 » In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.
April 15 » The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
June 3 » Melbourne–Evans collision: off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMASMelbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USSFrank E. Evans in half.
July 3 » Space Race: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N-1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
August 11 » The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the moon.
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