In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 1 » Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
Day of death August 26, 1970
The temperature on August 26, 1970 was between 8.9 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
September 4 » Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
September 11 » The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
September 12 » Dawson's Field hijackings: Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
September 30 » Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
October 10 » Fiji becomes independent.
December 23 » The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417m), making it the tallest building in the world.
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