The temperature on October 19, 1926 was between 0.3 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
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.)
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
June 28 » Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
Day of marriage May 15, 1956
The temperature on May 15, 1956 was between 1.2 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 30 » Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
September 9 » Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
September 27 » USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
October 17 » Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century.
October 21 » The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated.
November 2 » Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
Day of death February 2, 1999
The temperature on February 2, 1999 was between 4.6 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 23 » NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
May 3 » Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war.
May 24 » The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
October 12 » The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
December 22 » Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.
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