The temperature on April 27, 1927 was between 0.8 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
August 16 » The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
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 May 6, 2002
The temperature on May 6, 2002 was between 5.6 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 4 » Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
March 27 » Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.
May 24 » Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
June 24 » The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
November 21 » NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
November 22 » In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
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