The temperature on June 11, 1926 was between 7.4 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
April 24 » The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Day of marriage June 9, 1954
The temperature on June 9, 1954 was between 12.4 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
January 21 » The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USSNautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
April 8 » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
July 5 » Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
October 18 » Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
Day of death January 28, 1968
The temperature on January 28, 1968 was between -0.6 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
April 6 » In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
August 28 » The police rioted during the Democratic National Convention, beating up anti-war protesters, peaceful demonstrators, innocent bystanders, and members of the press.
November 5 » Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
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