The temperature on July 2, 1926 was between 14.0 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
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.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
Day of death April 26, 2000
The temperature on April 26, 2000 was between 10.2 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 19 » Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
June 22 » Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
September 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Rhonda Poole, "Poole/Walker family tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/poole-walker-family-tree/P1509.php : accessed May 10, 2025), "Milton Vernon Pontiflet (1926-2000)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.