The temperature on November 10, 1926 was between 4.4 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
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.)
June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
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 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
Day of marriage November 21, 1953
The temperature on November 21, 1953 was between 7.0 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
June 8 » An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
Day of death August 3, 2001
The temperature on August 3, 2001 was between 13.7 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
July 24 » The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air Force are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the Sri Lankan economy.
September 27 » In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
November 30 » Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders as the Green River Killer.
December 11 » The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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