The temperature on February 24, 1927 was between 2.0 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 29 » Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
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.
May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
Day of marriage February 24, 1954
The temperature on February 24, 1954 was between 1.8 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
March 19 » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
April 22 » Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
July 5 » Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
Day of death August 19, 2000
The temperature on August 19, 2000 was between 14.1 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 5 » Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
June 21 » Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
June 22 » Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
July 17 » During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.
August 11 » An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
November 9 » Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
Day of burial August 26, 2000
The temperature on August 26, 2000 was between 12.6 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 30 » Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
May 11 » Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
May 24 » Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
June 26 » The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
August 21 » Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
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