The temperature on September 24, 1926 was between 6.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
March 16 » History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
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.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
Day of death April 14, 1989
The temperature on April 14, 1989 was between 7.3 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 26.1 mm of rain during 10.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
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.
January 1 » The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.
March 12 » Sir Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the world wide web.
May 1 » Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
August 19 » Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
September 4 » In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
October 17 » The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
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