The temperature on October 23, 1927 was between 4.5 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
May 27 » The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
Day of marriage June 22, 1959
The temperature on June 22, 1959 was between 15.3 °C and 28.6 °C and averaged 20.9 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
February 6 » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
February 22 » Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
June 14 » Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
August 31 » A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
October 2 » Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. The first episode is “Where Is Everybody?”
Day of death July 3, 2007
The temperature on July 3, 2007 was between 13.6 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily 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 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.
February 18 » Samjhauta Express bombings occurred around midnight in Diwana near the Indian city of Panipat, 80 kilometres (50mi) north of New Delhi, India.
April 27 » Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
June 18 » The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters.
June 27 » The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
August 8 » An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
December 13 » The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members states of the European Union.
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