The temperature on June 26, 1927 was between 7.9 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 10.0 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
May 20 » Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
Day of death January 7, 2008
The temperature on January 7, 2008 was between 3.6 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
September 13 » Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
September 15 » Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
October 29 » Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
November 25 » Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
December 22 » An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1billion US gallons (4,200,000m) of coal fly ash slurry.
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