The temperature on September 2, 1926 was between 15.6 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of marriage September 14, 1950
The temperature on September 14, 1950 was between 9.2 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
March 7 » Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
June 24 » Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, formally segregating races.
June 28 » Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city falls later that day.
June 28 » Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 to 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
August 1 » Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
August 24 » Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
Day of death January 3, 1985
The temperature on January 3, 1985 was between -3.5 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -0.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
March 4 » The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
March 31 » The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
July 17 » Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
October 3 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
October 10 » US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
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