The temperature on April 18, 1927 was between 5.9 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
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.
Day of marriage October 25, 1955
The temperature on October 25, 1955 was between 4.0 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 11 » The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
June 2 » The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
September 6 » Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
September 25 » The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
Day of death December 22, 2017
The temperature on December 22, 2017 was between 7.3 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 6 » Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida.
April 3 » A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
June 5 » Montenegro becomes the 29th member of the NATO.
June 14 » London: A fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured.
July 10 » Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
October 12 » The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. and is immediately followed by Israel.
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