The temperature on June 25, 1926 was between 5.4 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death March 18, 2018
The temperature on March 18, 2018 was between -3.0 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -1.0 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
February 14 » A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 15 injuries.
May 9 » The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
July 25 » As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria.
August 3 » Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
October 17 » The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
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