February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of marriage June 26, 1926
The temperature on June 26, 1926 was between 8.0 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
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.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death December 29, 1981
The temperature on December 29, 1981 was between 1.5 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
January 2 » One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
April 26 » Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
May 5 » Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
May 25 » In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
October 3 » The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
November 1 » Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.
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