The temperature on June 18, 1927 was between 11.9 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
May 18 » After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
Day of marriage August 4, 1955
The temperature on August 4, 1955 was between 10.2 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
June 2 » The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
September 25 » The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
December 5 » E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
December 20 » Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
December 31 » General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
Day of death February 21, 1997
The temperature on February 21, 1997 was between 6.6 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
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March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
April 3 » The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
September 6 » The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2⁄2 billion watched around the world on television.
November 10 » WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
December 6 » A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
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