The temperature on March 24, 1927 was between 4.4 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
June 27 » Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
September 7 » The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
Day of marriage June 27, 1953
The temperature on June 27, 1953 was between 18.0 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
November 23 » Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.
Day of death January 22, 1999
The temperature on January 22, 1999 was between -3.1 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress.
May 3 » Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war.
June 1 » American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
July 31 » Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
August 10 » Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
December 6 » A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
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