The temperature on February 16, 1927 was between -1.9 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
Day of death December 31, 2007
The temperature on December 31, 2007 was between -1.0 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
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.
April 16 » Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
April 20 » Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
June 27 » The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
July 1 » Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
October 10 » Team Fortress 2 is released by Valve Corporation
October 15 » Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
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