January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
Day of marriage May 25, 1926
The temperature on May 25, 1926 was between 1.4 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
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.)
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
Day of death October 26, 1971
The temperature on October 26, 1971 was between 5.5 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 24 » The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
February 26 » U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
August 5 » The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.
September 20 » Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
November 12 » Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
December 4 » The PNS Ghazi, a submarine belonging to the Pakistan Navy, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971.
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