The temperature on July 3, 1927 was between 11.2 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
Day of death October 26, 1996
The temperature on October 26, 1996 was between 8.1 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 19 » The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
March 18 » A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
April 1 » The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.
May 27 » First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
September 5 » Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.
Day of burial October 30, 1996
The temperature on October 30, 1996 was between 7.7 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 8 » The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
February 17 » In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
February 17 » The 8.2 Mw Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.
March 18 » A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
July 25 » In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
August 31 » Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
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