April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
Day of marriage March 24, 1927
The temperature on March 24, 1927 was between 4.4 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
September 18 » The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
December 2 » Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
Day of death April 1, 1937
The temperature on April 1, 1937 was between 4.1 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
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