The temperature on April 19, 1926 was between 5.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 13.4 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
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.
July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
Day of death June 7, 2001
The temperature on June 7, 2001 was between 9.3 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 1 » Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
June 5 » Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
November 12 » War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
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