The temperature on May 1, 1927 was between 0.3 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
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 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
Day of death January 4, 2014
The temperature on January 4, 2014 was between 5.9 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
March 12 » A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
March 18 » The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
April 9 » A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania.
July 17 » A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin, resulting in at least 25 injuries.
December 5 » Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion is launched.
December 10 » Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein was killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah.
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