The temperature on March 1, 1933 was between -1.0 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
March 2 » The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
March 10 » The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area leaving around 108 people dead.
May 27 » New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
July 8 » The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.
September 12 » Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
October 14 » Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.
Christening day September 27, 1933
The temperature on September 27, 1933 was between 12.5 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
March 4 » The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
March 23 » The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
April 26 » The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
May 27 » New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
May 27 » The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
September 8 » Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
Day of marriage May 22, 1954
The temperature on May 22, 1954 was between 6.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
June 27 » The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
July 5 » The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
Day of death April 27, 2008
The temperature on April 27, 2008 was between 10.8 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (50%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
May 30 » TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport, killing five people.
June 1 » A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
June 9 » Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
August 1 » Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
September 7 » The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
October 7 » Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere.
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