The temperature on March 11, 1927 was between -0.9 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
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.
November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
Day of death June 26, 1999
The temperature on June 26, 1999 was between 7.8 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (85%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
March 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
March 20 » Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
November 8 » Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
December 2 » The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
December 5 » Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first to be elected to the role.
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