January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
Day of death November 26, 1978
The temperature on November 26, 1978 was between 0.1 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 6.9 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
September 5 » Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace discussions at Camp David, Maryland.
September 15 » Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
September 19 » The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.
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