January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
February 2 » Funeral of Queen Victoria.
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of marriage June 7, 1927
The temperature on June 7, 1927 was between 2.0 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 15.2 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
August 19 » Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
December 27 » Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.
Day of death November 15, 1965
The temperature on November 15, 1965 was between -8.0 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -4.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Hindi becomes the official language of India.
March 21 » Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
August 1 » Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.
August 29 » The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
October 21 » Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
December 7 » Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
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