The temperature on December 27, 1909 was between 7.1 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
Day of death August 3, 1975
The temperature on August 3, 1975 was between 14.0 °C and 29.9 °C and averaged 22.6 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (91%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 15 » The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
March 6 » For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
June 25 » Mozambique achieves independence from Portugal.
August 3 » A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
August 14 » The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.
October 22 » The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
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