January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
Day of marriage March 31, 1926
The temperature on March 31, 1926 was between -1.0 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
September 25 » The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death June 6, 1938
The temperature on June 6, 1938 was between 5.4 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
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