May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
Day of marriage May 27, 1926
The temperature on May 27, 1926 was between 9.9 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
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 death October 31, 1991
The temperature on October 31, 1991 was between 4.7 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 23 » In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
March 3 » An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
April 4 » Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
May 21 » Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
May 24 » Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
September 22 » The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
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