The temperature on July 3, 1926 was between 12.8 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
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.)
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
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.
Day of death January 20, 2015
The temperature on January 20, 2015 was between -2.2 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 7 » A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
February 17 » Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
May 12 » A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200.
May 19 » The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast.
August 12 » At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.
October 14 » A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.
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