The temperature on April 15, 1927 was between 3.1 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
May 4 » The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
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.
December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
Day of death April 27, 1980
The temperature on April 27, 1980 was between 1.6 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 28 » Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
March 23 » Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
April 2 » United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
April 18 » The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.
August 26 » After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI inadvertently detonates the bomb during its disarming.
September 23 » Bob Marley plays what would be the last concert of his life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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