The temperature on September 6, 1926 was between 14.8 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
June 14 » Brazil leaves 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.
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death June 15, 1998
The temperature on June 15, 1998 was between 9.7 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
April 10 » The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.
July 17 » The 7.0 Mw Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
August 20 » The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
August 24 » First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
October 29 » In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
November 9 » A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
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