The temperature on February 1, 1927 was between 1.1 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
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