The temperature on September 10, 1926 was between 12.0 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
May 9 » Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
May 18 » Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
June 14 » Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
Day of marriage September 22, 1951
The temperature on September 22, 1951 was between 4.4 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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).
In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
April 11 » Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
June 23 » The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched.
October 20 » The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
November 1 » Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
November 2 » Six thousand British troops arrive in Suez after the Egyptian government abrogates the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936.
December 20 » The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
Day of death December 8, 1983
The temperature on December 8, 1983 was between 1.5 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain during 8.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 1 » The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
January 18 » The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
February 12 » One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
February 13 » A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
April 22 » The German magazine Stern claims the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
May 20 » First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
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