The temperature on February 21, 1927 was between 0.3 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
July 24 » The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
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.
Day of death December 10, 2001
The temperature on December 10, 2001 was between -3.1 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 1 » Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
May 3 » The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
December 2 » Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
December 15 » The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.
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