January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
December 16 » Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
Day of marriage January 19, 1928
The temperature on January 19, 1928 was between 0.2 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 13.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
Day of death August 27, 1980
The temperature on August 27, 1980 was between 8.3 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 17 » First winter ascent of Mount Everest by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.
February 23 » Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
May 20 » In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
June 3 » An explosive device is detonated at the Statue of Liberty. The FBI suspects Croatian nationalists.
July 1 » "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
December 8 » Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City.
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