January 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
Day of marriage June 13, 1927
The temperature on June 13, 1927 was between 10.9 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
June 27 » Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
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.
December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
Day of death July 2, 1976
The temperature on July 2, 1976 was between 12.7 °C and 31.9 °C and averaged 24.3 °C. There was 15.6 hours of sunshine (94%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 4 » The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
January 12 » The United Nations Security Council votes 11–1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
April 5 » In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
June 29 » The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
July 21 » Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
December 25 » EgyptAir Flight 664, a Boeing 707-366C, crashes on approach to Don Mueang International Airport, killing 71 people.
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