The temperature on August 8, 1926 was between 6.7 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of marriage November 13, 1952
The temperature on November 13, 1952 was between 0.5 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 28 » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
May 13 » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
July 21 » The 7.3 Mw Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
November 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
Day of death July 9, 2016
The temperature on July 9, 2016 was between 14.6 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 8 » Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.
January 15 » The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
March 16 » A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 54.
March 19 » An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
March 27 » A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.
May 27 » Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
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