January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
Day of marriage October 27, 1931
The temperature on October 27, 1931 was between -4.0 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
March 3 » The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
Day of death February 28, 1983
The temperature on February 28, 1983 was between 2.0 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 8 » Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
March 16 » Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
May 17 » Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
June 4 » Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.
June 18 » Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
October 22 » Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
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