The temperature on November 27, 1921 was between -10.0 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged -3.8 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
February 15 » Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
March 18 » The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
Day of death May 7, 2008
The temperature on May 7, 2008 was between 10.9 °C and 25.5 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (91%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
July 2 » Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
August 1 » The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
September 7 » The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
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