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
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 » 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.
April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
May 4 » The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
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.
October 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
Day of death January 25, 2008
The temperature on January 25, 2008 was between 2.4 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly 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.
February 23 » A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.
April 20 » Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
July 10 » Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
July 13 » Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army and Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001.
August 18 » President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns under threat of impeachment.
September 12 » The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
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