The temperature on March 9, 1927 was between -0.9 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
April 23 » Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
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 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
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 March 11, 1961
The temperature on March 11, 1961 was between 5.9 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
September 18 » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
September 28 » A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
November 12 » Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the Ketch Bluebelle.
December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
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