The temperature on August 4, 1926 was between 11.6 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
Day of death January 27, 1961
The temperature on January 27, 1961 was between -7.5 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -2.9 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
March 1 » Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
March 24 » Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
April 25 » Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
May 25 » Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
December 2 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
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