The temperature on April 30, 1926 was between 11.8 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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.)
June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
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 March 12, 1949
The temperature on March 12, 1949 was between -3.9 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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).
April 7 » The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
July 1 » The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
July 27 » Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
September 21 » The People's Republic of China is proclaimed.
December 27 » Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies.
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