January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
October 6 » The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
November 3 » With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Day of marriage March 25, 1927
The temperature on March 25, 1927 was between 3.0 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
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.
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.
August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
Day of death October 18, 1996
The temperature on October 18, 1996 was between 3.2 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
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January 29 » President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
February 9 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
February 24 » Two civilian airplanes operated by the Miami-based group Brothers to the Rescue are shot down in international waters by the Cuban Air Force.
June 4 » The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
July 28 » The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
December 29 » Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
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