January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
May 8 » In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
Day of marriage June 3, 1926
The temperature on June 3, 1926 was between 10.4 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
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.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death April 4, 1947
The temperature on April 4, 1947 was between 2.0 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
April 9 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted.
April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
December 2 » Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
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