The temperature on July 11, 1927 was between 14.2 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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).
August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
Christening day September 4, 1927
The temperature on September 4, 1927 was between 13.8 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
June 27 » Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
Day of marriage May 2, 1953
The temperature on May 2, 1953 was between 8.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
June 8 » The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
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