The temperature on June 27, 1908 was between 12.5 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
April 11 » SMSBlücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
July 26 » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
Day of death February 26, 1985
The temperature on February 26, 1985 was between -0.5 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 13 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
March 11 » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state.
May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
August 27 » The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
November 19 » Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
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