The temperature on June 19, 1927 was between 11.5 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
April 23 » Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
September 5 » The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
Day of death June 23, 1995
The temperature on June 23, 1995 was between 11.0 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
May 2 » During the Croatian War of Independence, the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians.
May 23 » The first version of the Java programming language is released.
September 19 » The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
September 28 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
October 3 » The O. J. Simpson murder case ended with a verdict of not guilty.
October 16 » The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attended.
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