The temperature on February 22, 1927 was between 3.3 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
April 12 » Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
May 18 » The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
Day of marriage May 15, 1952
The temperature on May 15, 1952 was between 10.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 10 » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
May 2 » A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg.
July 21 » The 7.3 Mw Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
October 14 » Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
December 20 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
Day of death July 15, 1981
The temperature on July 15, 1981 was between 13.2 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
January 18 » Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
February 23 » In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
April 12 » The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
August 1 » MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
September 21 » Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
September 21 » Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
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