The temperature on September 28, 1927 was between 3.8 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
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.
July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
Day of death August 10, 1947
The temperature on August 10, 1947 was between 11.6 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
March 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
April 9 » The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
July 19 » Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
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