The temperature on May 26, 1927 was between 4.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 15 » The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
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 November 30, 1971
The temperature on November 30, 1971 was between -1.8 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 2 » The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
February 27 » Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.
March 1 » President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
March 7 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
March 12 » The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
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