The temperature on August 28, 1926 was between 6.3 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
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 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 25 » Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death August 31, 1926
The temperature on August 31, 1926 was between 14.6 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 20.0 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
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.
June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
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