The temperature on February 22, 1926 was between 5.4 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
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 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
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 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death March 18, 2000
The temperature on March 18, 2000 was between 5.5 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
February 14 » The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
May 25 » Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982.
October 11 » NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
November 17 » Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
December 31 » The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.
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