The temperature on February 27, 1912 was between 8.9 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
Day of marriage August 7, 1947
The temperature on August 7, 1947 was between 11.7 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
December 16 » William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
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