The temperature on May 30, 1926 was between 10.8 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
August 6 » In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
Day of death January 27, 1927
The temperature on January 27, 1927 was between 1.3 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
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.
December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
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