The temperature on May 5, 1927 was between 11.0 °C and 25.8 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 9 » A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.
January 11 » Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
January 22 » Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
May 22 » Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
Day of marriage October 15, 1981
The temperature on October 15, 1981 was between 0.1 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
February 23 » In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
July 7 » US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
July 29 » After impeachment on June 21, Abolhassan Banisadr flees with Massoud Rajavi to Paris, in an Iranian Air Force Boeing 707, piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
September 1 » A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
September 21 » Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
December 13 » General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, largely due to the actions by Solidarity.
Day of death April 24, 2000
The temperature on April 24, 2000 was between 6.5 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 2 » First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
March 20 » Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
September 14 » Microsoft releases Windows ME.
September 28 » Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
November 17 » Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
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