March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
Day of marriage March 11, 1926
The temperature on March 11, 1926 was between 0.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
Day of death October 22, 1985
The temperature on October 22, 1985 was between 2.1 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 7 » Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
February 19 » William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
July 7 » Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
November 13 » Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
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