The temperature on April 27, 1932 was between 5.1 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 18 » The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
July 9 » The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.
July 29 » Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
July 31 » The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
September 10 » The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
December 27 » Radio City Music Hall, "Showplace of the Nation", opens in New York City.
Day of marriage July 11, 1953
The temperature on July 11, 1953 was between 9.9 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
Day of death October 12, 2018
The temperature on October 12, 2018 was between 14.7 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (82%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 23 » A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
January 31 » Both a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse occur.
March 4 » Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
March 23 » President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress of Peru.
April 23 » A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested.
September 28 » The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
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