The temperature on November 1, 1927 was between 4.9 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
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 25 » The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
Day of death December 21, 2008
The temperature on December 21, 2008 was between 6.5 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 24 » Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
July 2 » Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
July 10 » Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
July 21 » Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first president of Nepal.
September 10 » The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
September 12 » The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
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