The temperature on March 1, 1926 was between 3.9 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
Day of death February 8, 2014
The temperature on February 8, 2014 was between 4.2 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
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.
February 22 » President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
March 12 » A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
May 11 » Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
May 24 » A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
July 23 » TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
October 14 » A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
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