The temperature on December 13, 1909 was between -1.3 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
Day of marriage June 26, 1926
The temperature on June 26, 1926 was between 7.4 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
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.
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
Day of death August 21, 1987
The temperature on August 21, 1987 was between 16.3 °C and 29.4 °C and averaged 22.4 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
April 18 » The New York Islanders defeat the Washington Capitals 3–2 in Game 7 of their Patrick Division Semifinal series.
June 12 » Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
June 29 » Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, was bought for $20.4million at an auction in London, England.
July 1 » The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
July 24 » Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.
November 8 » Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
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