The temperature on April 8, 1909 was between -0.7 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of burial May 27, 1972
The temperature on May 27, 1972 was between 8.2 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 18.4 mm of rain during 8.4 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
January 26 » JAT Fight 367 is destroyed by a terrorist bomb, killing 27 of the 28 people on board the DC-9. Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survives with critical injuries.
April 10 » Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
May 8 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
June 29 » The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
September 29 » China–Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
November 28 » Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison.
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