The temperature on October 27, 1927 was between 13.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
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).
April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
Day of death November 1, 2015
The temperature on November 1, 2015 was between 3.0 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
January 26 » An aircraft crashes at Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Spain, killing 11 people and injuring 21 others.
May 18 » At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar.
June 27 » Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.
August 8 » Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
August 12 » At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.
August 16 » More than 96 people are killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held market town of Douma.
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