The temperature on January 11, 1926 was between -1.3 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
Day of marriage July 19, 1950
The temperature on July 19, 1950 was between 16.6 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 5 » In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force – 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
January 23 » The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
May 13 » The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
June 27 » The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
July 5 » Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.
October 16 » The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is published.
Day of death February 18, 2000
The temperature on February 18, 2000 was between 0.8 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
March 20 » Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
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 14 » Microsoft releases Windows ME.
November 15 » Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
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