In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
May 28 » In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
Day of death December 27, 1935
The temperature on December 27, 1935 was between 5.0 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 13 » A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
May 25 » Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
September 24 » Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
October 19 » The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
November 3 » George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.
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