The temperature on August 25, 1927 was between 8.0 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 13.9 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
January 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.
Day of death August 11, 1995
The temperature on August 11, 1995 was between 14.6 °C and 31.2 °C and averaged 23.5 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (94%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
August 20 » The Firozabad rail disaster claimed 358 lives in Firozabad, India.
September 22 » The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
October 26 » Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in his hotel in Malta.
October 30 » Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
November 30 » U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favour of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls terrorists "yesterday's men".
December 20 » American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50km north of Cali, Colombia killing 159.
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