The temperature on December 13, 1927 was between -5.9 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
April 23 » Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
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.
Day of marriage March 27, 1953
The temperature on March 27, 1953 was between -0.7 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
September 7 » Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
Day of death February 10, 2012
The temperature on February 10, 2012 was between -10.8 °C and -2.1 °C and averaged -6.1 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
February 15 » Three hundred sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
May 21 » A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
June 22 » Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is removed from office by impeachment and succeeded by Federico Franco.
September 7 » Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.
September 27 » In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots seven citizens, killing five and then himself.
December 11 » At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
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