The temperature on August 17, 1927 was between 9.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
June 27 » Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
Day of death August 26, 2013
The temperature on August 26, 2013 was between 12.8 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
January 10 » More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
April 30 » Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
June 3 » The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.
August 15 » The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years.
November 13 » 4 World Trade Center officially opens.
December 16 » A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.
Day of burial August 31, 2013
The temperature on August 31, 2013 was between 8.7 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
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.
June 3 » At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
July 16 » As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
July 29 » Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.
August 15 » The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years.
October 28 » Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at the Tiananmen Square in China.
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