The temperature on July 14, 1927 was between 12.3 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
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 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
December 2 » Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
Day of death September 19, 1966
The temperature on September 19, 1966 was between 5.9 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
June 2 » Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
August 23 » Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
November 8 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
December 24 » A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
December 27 » The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
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