The temperature on August 26, 1927 was between 10.9 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
Day of marriage November 22, 1947
The temperature on November 22, 1947 was between 12.5 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 12.0 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
March 1 » The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
Day of death July 25, 1996
The temperature on July 25, 1996 was between 14.1 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 11 » Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
February 17 » NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
March 4 » A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
April 24 » In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
May 10 » A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
November 5 » Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
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