The temperature on July 8, 1926 was between 14.1 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.)
August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death May 7, 1927
The temperature on May 7, 1927 was between 9.8 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
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