The temperature on March 9, 1911 was between 0.4 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
June 22 » Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.
July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
December 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
Day of death August 26, 1967
The temperature on August 26, 1967 was between 11.3 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
April 14 » Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
April 24 » Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
June 4 » Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
July 24 » During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"); the statement angered the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians.
November 7 » US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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