The temperature on June 20, 1927 was between 11.2 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 24 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
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 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.
May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
Day of marriage May 21, 1958
The temperature on May 21, 1958 was between 6.8 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 16 » The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
March 19 » The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
June 16 » Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
August 17 » Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
September 14 » The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
December 14 » The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
Day of death June 6, 2007
The temperature on June 6, 2007 was between 14.5 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
April 18 » A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
September 10 » Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
September 27 » NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.
October 2 » President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
November 7 » Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
December 27 » Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.
2013 » Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
2013 » Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (b. 1918)
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