The temperature on August 16, 1927 was between 11.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 13.6 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
Day of marriage September 16, 1947
The temperature on September 16, 1947 was between 17.0 °C and 28.9 °C and averaged 21.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
March 25 » An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
August 4 » The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
September 30 » The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
December 30 » Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
Day of death October 14, 1990
The temperature on October 14, 1990 was between 14.1 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 4 » In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
January 24 » Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
August 8 » Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
August 12 » Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
September 20 » South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
November 12 » Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
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