The temperature on August 5, 1912 was between 10.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
Day of death February 27, 2001
The temperature on February 27, 2001 was between -0.3 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
April 11 » The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
April 25 » Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
August 25 » American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
September 2 » The adult-oriented television block Adult Swim debuts on Cartoon Network.
December 11 » The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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