The temperature on May 11, 1926 was between 6.5 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
Day of marriage April 13, 1950
The temperature on April 13, 1950 was between -0.9 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
February 9 » Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
June 24 » Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.
October 7 » Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
October 19 » China defeats the Tibetan Army at Chambo.
November 13 » General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
November 21 » Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
Day of death December 16, 2000
The temperature on December 16, 2000 was between 3.1 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
May 24 » Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
October 26 » A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
November 17 » A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
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