The temperature on April 26, 1921 was between 6.7 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 20 » The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle of national sovereignty.
February 21 » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
July 11 » A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
September 7 » In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
October 29 » United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.
Day of marriage August 26, 1950
The temperature on August 26, 1950 was between 12.9 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 26 » The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
July 20 » Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
August 25 » President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
October 11 » CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
November 1 » Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
December 9 » Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Day of death October 22, 1986
The temperature on October 22, 1986 was between 6.6 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 12.8 mm of rain during 10.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 16 » China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard.
April 14 » The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2lb)) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
April 26 » A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
April 28 » High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
May 3 » Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
November 25 » The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
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