The temperature on August 15, 1927 was between 14.1 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 21.8 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
December 2 » Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
Day of death December 20, 2008
The temperature on December 20, 2008 was between 6.2 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
June 8 » At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
June 26 » A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
July 10 » Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
December 24 » The Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks against civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.
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