The temperature on March 16, 1927 was between -2.7 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
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.
September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
Day of marriage May 6, 1954
The temperature on May 6, 1954 was between 7.0 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 18 » The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
March 9 » McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
August 16 » The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
Day of death March 25, 2013
The temperature on March 25, 2013 was between -2.4 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (77%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
March 29 » At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
April 19 » Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
April 20 » A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
June 16 » A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
August 8 » A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
December 9 » At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
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