January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
Day of marriage February 25, 1926
The temperature on February 25, 1926 was between 3.7 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death January 20, 1975
The temperature on January 20, 1975 was between 0.1 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 2 » At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.
January 8 » Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
April 13 » An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
June 5 » The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
August 27 » The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
November 28 » East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
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