The temperature on October 23, 1926 was between -2.5 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
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 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.)
August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
Day of marriage August 24, 1945
The temperature on August 24, 1945 was between 12.4 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
January 28 » World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
March 27 » World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
May 15 » World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
August 21 » Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
September 7 » World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
December 4 » By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
Day of death January 18, 2012
The temperature on January 18, 2012 was between -1.8 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 6.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
March 4 » A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
May 20 » At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
September 11 » A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
November 9 » At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
November 17 » At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.
December 22 » Bashir Ahmad Bilour of Awami National Party and eight others are killed in a Pakistan Taliban bomber suicide attack in Dhaki Nalbandi area near Qissa Khwani Bazaar.
Day of cremation January 23, 2012
The temperature on January 23, 2012 was between 2.9 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
April 2 » A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.
June 22 » A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.
June 29 » A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
November 9 » A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
December 11 » At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
December 19 » Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
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