February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
May 26 » The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
Day of marriage April 22, 1926
The temperature on April 22, 1926 was between 2.7 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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).
May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
Day of death February 12, 1962
The temperature on February 12, 1962 was between 4.2 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
August 27 » The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
September 25 » The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
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