The temperature on April 12, 1927 was between 2.5 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
Day of death May 18, 2012
The temperature on May 18, 2012 was between 9.4 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
February 7 » President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
February 22 » A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
March 13 » The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children.
April 11 » A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
September 28 » Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
November 7 » An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.
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